keep up the great work

We should not make distinction in saving animals. Those who live in the great realm of waters are equally beautiful and intelligent as those we see while walking on land or flying up high. They cary the wisdom of their own. And for that we must respect them.

even in such microscopic quantities. words are just words, i can type in some, but this 'action' alone will not solve problems. But i still want to add myself into mix - even if it will like 'voice from the distant star'.

Andrew_R, Russia, Saint-Petersburg.

Noted #39? Animal Friends Croatia - they did it. (06/30/09 Freedom Instead of Captivity )

myself (and my country) far, far away from such victory.......

Whatever it takes to save our seas and the creatures that live in them.

I am so glad I am not the one ticking God off.

We have to do everything possible to save these magnificent creatures and also keep them out of captivity. Alan you are an inspiration to all of us to keep up the amazing work.

These magnificent creatures are dying - in nets, from hunting, military sonar and global warming. We will all feel the effects of their passing. When will the human species wake up?

This Charter is just one of many important goals that we as compassionate individuals have to push for. Never ever think that we can not make a difference, nobody said it was going to be easy! But Charter's such as this will hopefully stand the test of time. If out planet we 'share' is not to be destroyed along with its billions of unique species, of which we are only one. We must support this Charter, to remind us that 'out of sight - out of mind' destruction of our seas and marine habitats can not go on unchallenged. For the sake of all living creatures we must rise to the task.

Debbie

On behalf of captive dolphins and other abuses to sea beings our oganisation support the Charter of the Cetecea Defense League and its activities.
Visakha SPCA
helping marine animals and all animals off the coast of Andhra Pradesh
Visakhapatnam, India
www.vspca.com

Great

Of course, full support of this World Charter for Cetacea
Agree with every word - well done and keep up the great work!

We are pleased to endorse the World Charter for Cetacea, a vital step on the path to freedom for all from human exploitation.
Veggies Catering Campaign
http://www.veggies.org.uk

Of course, full support of this World Charter for Cetacea

Please register my support

In helping them we are helping ourselves!

Please accept my support

Agree with every word - well done and keep up the great work!

In total support.

i fully support the Charter for Cetacea

We have no right to imprison and exploit these magnificent creatures of the ocean. We have got to stop this arrogant domination and set them free.

This is a signature signed with love for such gentle creatures. Stories abound of humans being aided, helped or rescued from drowing, sharks and danger. Without them the world would have less smiles to view and a void that could not be filled.

As co-ordinator of the S.P.E.A.K. list, I add my signature to this Charter. This is an incredibly important campaign and it deserves unconditional global support.

Christina Louise Dicker

"Spiritual People Embracing Animals with Kindness"

July 2007

I support the charter.

Good Work Alan.

It is well past time for humans to begin recognizing rights of other intelligent beings, and to rotect cetaceans from our habitual rapacious exploitation. May this charter become an official beginning.

The most endangered of the cetacean species are the various river dolphins and some species limited to coastal areas, such as the presumed extinct Lipotes vexillifer, the Yangtse Dolphin, humans know very little about cetacean lives.
For a very quick overview of some of these most endangered, please go to http://www.southwest.com.au/~kirbyhs/pinkdolphins.html
While those of you conversant with science understand the many areas of trauma inflicted by our human activities on the earth, the reverence for life, which is carried on through individuation and held but once uniquely by each living organism, is of vital importance to nurture through action. In this way, through the most important communication of respect, we enhance life rather than diminish it.
This is always our most important relationship with others, born of the same cells as us.

I'm happy to support the Charter.

Viva! supports the work to protect cetacea.

Our aim is to protect all marine beings and to bring to public notice the fact that they all deserve recognition as having the right to life, liberty and the freedom to live out their natural lives free from human intervention. We understand that whales and dolphins and cetaceans in general, need special consideration as they are sentient beings who obviously have a joy of life. Hopefully soon the seas won't be plundered for the 'fruits of the sea' by humans.

Please stop the killing of our ocean mammals. As you recall a few decades ago these animals were almost to the point od extinction due to hunting them down. Now the populations are baclk let them flourish. Remember the food chain. We learned about it in school. Nature has its own way with dealing with things. Just because the world is over populated should we kill people? Please consider this action before our world is destroyed.

J

I reject violence, cruelty, and crime against innocent and defendless creatures.

i support the for cetacea

We fully support your charter and every other action to preserve the Cetacea.

Action Against Poisoning
www.actionagainstpoisoning.com

Jose' Kersten %26 Marius Donker

I support the Charter for Cetacea.

i support.

Thanks for your work in fightting for the Cetacea.

Cornwall's Voice for Animals ( cvfa/oipa.uk )
Representing The International Organisation for Animal Protection
NGO affiliated to the UN Department of Public Information, Is A Proud Supporter of The Charter

We support the Charter for Cetacea.

I support the world charter.

I fully support the World Charter for Cetacea. Keep up the good work.

We support the world charter all the way.

I fully support this charter and wish for the best outcome x

I am pleased to find this web site and proud to support the charter.

The Hawaiian Islands Humpback National Marine Sanctuary here off the island of Maui is intended to protect the whales and other marine life, but has almost no rules to provide actual sanctuary. You can email the Sanctuary directly at hihumpbackwhale@noaa.gov to demand rules to protect the whales. (For more information please go to http://www.pumpdontdump.com/ )

Thank you for the opportunity to voice my support of your focused effort!

I support the Charter for Cetacea.

I support all the incredible work that Cetacea Defence is doing. I would like to add my name to the charter and the campaign which is seeking the ban of all dolphinariums and the needless slaughter of whales and dolphins.

great work

The Shellfish Netork supports all efforts to save marine life with especial reference to shellfish and cetaceans. The world must clean up its act before the acid levels in the sea cannot be reversed. We are also against all aquaria which are for research purposes or merely 'zoos'for humans to gawp at.

I support the World Charter whole-heartedly as a great step forward in respecting cetaceans and taking action to protect them.

Marine mammals need support more than ever in todays world and joining forces to work for their protection and welfare is the most efficient way we can achieve our goals - to stop the suffering of cetaceans at the hand of man. This Charter is an important step towards appreciation of the species and the Marine Connection pledge to play our part in this global awareness.

An important charter. May get more signitories if the charter was highlighted on Home Page of Cetacea Defence.

I support "A Universal Declaration of Rights".

In our work together as individuals and organizations for keeping all cetaceans free, the World Charter for Cetacea binds together our objective into one simple focused document.

We fully support the Charter and its objectives.

William H. Adam
KEEP DOLPHINS FREE IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

Die Haltung von Delfinen in Betonbecken ist weder art- noch tiergerecht und bedeutet für die Meeressäuger eine Qual!

Wir unterstützen die "World Charter for Cetacea" und wünschen uns eine gute Zusammenarbeit auf europäischer Ebene für die Schießung aller Delfinarien!

We fully support the Charter and wish for cooperating well on a European level for the closure of all dolphinariums!

Vegetarierbund Deutschlands (VEBU), Regionalgruppe Lichtenfels

The Captive Animals' Protection Society fully supports the Charter and all attempts to protect cetaceans and other species.

Whales and dolphins are magnificent creatures and so very intelligent. Why does man kind always try to find a utilitarian purpose to kill them. Why is there such disrespect?

The band Luminous Frenzy wish to add their support to this charter.

Louise writes: I swam with dolphins and it was an unforgettable experience. I urge everyone to support this charter and protect all these wonderful creatures.

The undersigned give permission in allowing the details below, to be displayed as a signatory to the World Charter For Cetacea
Signed

On behalf of: Caroline Lucas - MEP

Address: European Parliament, Rue Wiertz, B-1047 Brussels, Belgium


Date: 07.02.06

Please add Animals Asia Foundation's name in support of this Charter

Keep up the good work...! xx

I support the World Charter for Cetacea. I hope that, in time, the articles of the charter are considered by all to be the way things should be.

Kate O'Farrell
Shaftesbury
Dorset

The moon has disappeared, we circle well worn grooves
of water on a single note.Music is loss forever
from the others heart which turns my own to stone.
There is a plastic toy.There is no hope.We sink
to the limits of this pool until the whistle blows
There is a man and our mind knows we will die here.
And now we are no longer blessed for the world
will not deepen to dream in.The other knows
and out of love reflects me for myself.
We see our silver skin flash by like a memory
of somewhere else.......

May the world one day learn the true meaning of "ahimsa" and, like the Tibetan Buddhists, learn to walk on the grass without crushing an insect; let alone destroy an animal so powerful and yet so gentle, wise and loving as the cetacea population.

We in Visakha SPCA located in Visakhapatnam on the east coast of India,Bay of Bengal, are proud to join in this international effort to bring sanity to the way the human species view and treats the ceteceas species on our planet. Thank you for your important work!
www.visakhaspca.org

Ethical Consumer magazine support this work

I support this charter. Confirmation Sent by land mail to Cetacea Defence, PO BOX 78, SHAFTESBURY, DORSET, UK
from Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3RY

I support this initative.By land Mail from Swinton, Manchester, M27 0FB

I'm proud to show my support for this historic document.

I support this charter

I am very happy to put my name to this document and hope the number of others doing like wise grows daily.
Well done Alan

UK-wide animal protection organisation Uncaged Campaigns fully supports the principles of this Declaration for marine animals

I am happy to sign this important declaration. We are destroying so much for our own greed. It is time the human race stopped and took stock of its actions against other living beings that share our planet.

Youv'r been running a week and only 3 supporters!Not surprised the big or other marine orgs won't get involved, because what's in it for them? no membership, no money, no credit as the innovators.So-called animal rights people won't get involved, because marine issues aren't their remitt, they are mainly happy to think the issues are 'Greenpeace' of 'Friends of the Earth'
Most people, the 'net activists' who surf the net are happy to print and fwd their name on the endless petitions that circulate the net, that will never get printed off and used by anyone. Yet it seems ask them to think and act on an historic document like this, fraid its beyond them. Still good luck and I'll def. do something
ps/The authorities should never have panicked about the subversity of the net, its the new television!

Dear Alan,

What is meant by "being human" if one does not recognize the rights of other, living beings? The World Charter for Cetacea: A Universal Declaration of Rights does just that - by bringing an awareness and voice to our ocean cousins in an attempt to preserve their equity, and thus, their protection. Thank you for its' creation. Now the real work needs to commence by putting this Charter into action. I urge all supporters of Cetacea Defense and all Friends of Dolphins/Cetaceans to circulate and incorporate the Charter into their mandates. We must think of the world which surrounds us as a living podner - and not as something to be used - and abused.

Cara Sands
Friends of the Dolphins
http://friendsofthedolphins.blogspot.com/

We fully endorse and support the World Charter for Cetacea and will work to implement it.

ECOTERRA Intl.
ECOTERRA e.V.
ECOTERRA TRUST

The Charter cherishes a love for whales and dolphins and all cetaceans it points us in an ethical direction, in relationship with them. We can, end or much reduce the real threats to them. We must not fail them, for in the past, we have failed to often with other species.
Once they have gone, they will only be a memory to some or a picture in a book to others.