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The message below asks concerned Americans to call on the U.S. Navy to stop needlessly killing whales during sonar training and testing. You can help us build this movement to restrict deadly sonar by forwarding this message to six of your friends, family members or colleagues.

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The message below, about the U.S. Navy's refusal to protect whales from deadly sonar, was sent to you by

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Dear Friend,

We need your immediate help to defend whales around the world from the Navy's use of lethal, mid-frequency sonar.

You can help stop the Navy's needless killing of whales by going to http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/Act_Now_To_Save_The_Whales and calling on the Navy to put common-sense safeguards in place during sonar training.

Hundreds of whales have already died after getting blasted by mid-frequency military sonar. And scientists suspect that many more are being injured and killed without our ever knowing.

Mid-frequency sonar is designed to detect enemy submarines by flooding tens or even hundreds of square miles of ocean with deafening noise. Warships carrying sonar blast the ocean with a sound level up to 245 decibels -- roughly comparable to a Saturn V rocket at blast-off. Some beached whales have been found bleeding around their brains and ears after sonar training exercises.

But the Navy still refuses to take simple precautions during sonar exercises that would help prevent whales from stranding, suffering and dying!

The mounting death toll is not only preventable, it is illegal. The Navy is violating the Endangered Species Act and other bedrock environmental laws during this kind of sonar training.

I'm sure you agree that whales should not have to die for military practice. And the Navy should not get away with breaking our environmental laws.

Please help put a stop to this senseless killing by going to http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/Act_Now_To_Save_The_Whales right now and sending the Secretary of the Navy a message urging him to put safeguards in place immediately.

Let's make sure that no more whales have to suffer and die from mid-frequency sonar.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
NRDC Action Fund

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