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Campaign Whale is an influential non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises and their habitats.

The organisation was established in 1980 and is managed by the founding Director, Andy Ottaway, a well respected leading expert in whale and dolphin protection. Campaign Whale has a small team of staff and the organisation benefits from the support of a number of long term volunteers.

Campaign Whale’s objectives are to:

* Preserve and strengthen the ban on commercial whaling, which is in danger of total collapse

* Force Governments to act over the increasing environmental threats to the survival of whales and dolphins from climate change, pollution, over-fishing, entanglement in nets, ship-strikes and lethal naval sonar

* Campaign for the establishment of comprehensive whale sanctuaries to protect all whale and dolphin species and their habitats

* Prevent Iceland’s recent resumption of commercial whaling

* Stop the mass slaughter of smaller whales, dolphins and porpoises in Japan and around the world

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* Founded the Global Whale Alliance (GWA), an international network of over 160 animal welfare and conservation groups in thirty countries working together to stop commercial whaling (http://www.global-whale-alliance.org)

* Co-launched an international campaign called ‘Whalewatch’, with a major report entitled, ‘Troubled Waters’. The report was introduced by Sir David Attenborough to highlight the cruelty of whaling (http://www.whalewatch.org)

* Established America’s ‘Whale Alliance’ to press the US Government to oppose commercial whaling

* The only British organisation in the ‘Save Japan’s Dolphins’ coalition (http://www.savejapandolphins.org)

* At the 2008 International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile, Campaign Whale ensured a record number of Member States spoke out against Japan’s Dall’s porpoise hunt that kills an average of 17,000 animals per year

* Commissioned a major legal review exposing serious loopholes in EU legislation for the protection of whales and dolphins

* Launched a campaign to stop oil and gas development in the feeding grounds of the critically endangered Western Pacific Gray whale

* Funded an investigation that exposed the illegal slaughter of dolphins in Peru

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Website: www.campaign-whale.org

Tel: 01273 471403

Email: andyo[at]campaign-whale.org