Take action now: Protect Southern Resident Orcas from extinction!

Southern Resident Orcas are teetering on the brink of extinction. They have already lost 60-90% of their ability to use echolocation for hunting and communicating in their core habitat due to shipping traffic noise.

If we don’t stop this plan it could spell the end for these orcas. But we only have ONE day left to convince the Navy to scrap its sonar testing plan. We need you with us. And we need you to act NOW!

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To whom it may concern,

I am writing to express my concern that the Navy’s testing and training activities in the Pacific Northwest will harm critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales and other sensitive marine life.  These killer whales are in harm’s way since the Navy plans to conduct activities in their coastal habitat spanning from Washington to California, including Puget Sound.

The Navy’s environmental impact statement fails to fully disclose the damage that its activities will have on marine mammals and their habitat. The massive scale of the proposed activities will not only deafen and injure marine mammals, but it will also disrupt feeding and breeding activities. Some of the same animals will be exposed to sonar multiple times, and whales will be displaced from their preferred habitat. The environmental impact statement also fails to fully disclose harm that will be done to fish and plankton, which will have effects up the food chain.

I am writing to urge the Navy adopt mitigation measures that will fully protect the critical habitat of endangered orcas—entirely prohibiting testing and training activities in Puget Sound. The Navy must also ban sonar and explosives in biologically important areas and set limits on activities that can harm marine life.

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