Environmental Issues and Events:

Green Party of Utah Officially Endorses America’s Whale Alliance

• conservationist, environmental and animal welfare organizations, scientists and other US citizens to join us and help reverse the US Government’s pro-RMS policy.
  
• the US Government to enforce the existing moratorium on commercial whaling by applying punitive political and economic sanctions against intransigent whaling nations.
  

• The US has undermined the effectiveness of the IWC moratorium to date by striking bilateral deals with intransigent whalers to avoid applying meaningful sanctions under US law.
• Increasing scientific evidence provides clear warning of a potentially catastrophic threat to whales and their environment.
• Commercial whaling is both unnecessary and inherently cruel.
• Consumption of contaminated whale meat poses a serious risk to human health.
• We do not know enough about whales to manage them sustainably.
• Global whale populations remain at historic lows after decades of unsustainable slaughter.
• The IWC’s moratorium on commercial whaling represents an international conservation treaty that should be enforced by the international community, led by the United States.
• The IWC cannot conserve whale stocks unless the moratorium is maintained and the growing environmental threats to whales are fully quantified and addressed.
• Whale-watching is an economically viable, sustainable and more ethical alternative use of whales to commercial whaling.