Shell gave up drilling in Alaska. President Obama withdrew licence for 2016 and 2017. Thanks to Greenpeace and seven million people.
Narwhals have an unusual feature, a tusk. The male has a left incisor and is an unusual spiral tusk. Sometimes it even grows two tusks. The female rarely grows any but it has two incisors up to 20 cm long.It is assumed that their tusk might a social role. It could play a part in breeding or social status. Male do use their tusk for fighting and there are injuries.Their communication has a great variety. It ranges from calls, whistles, clangs to clicks and even cow-like moos.
The tiny community of Clyde River in the Canadian Arctic is under threat: oil companies have been given the green light to start looking for oil in Baffin Bay.
Narwhals have an unusual feature, a tusk. The male has a left incisor and is an unusual spiral tusk. Sometimes it even grows two tusks. The female rarely grows any but it has two incisors up to 20 cm long.It is assumed that their tusk might a social role. It could play a part in breeding or social status. Male do use their tusk for fighting and there are injuries.Their communication has a great variety. It ranges from calls, whistles, clangs to clicks and even cow-like moos.
The tiny community of Clyde River in the Canadian Arctic is under threat: oil companies have been given the green light to start looking for oil in Baffin Bay.
To do
that, they’ll use seismic testing, firing deafening explosions through the
ocean to try and find the pockets of oil under the seabed. The noise from these
explosions could be catastrophic for the wildlife that live here too, including
most of the world’s narwhal population.
NARWHALS IN CANADA
The
people of Clyde River are doing everything they can to keep the giant oil
industry out of their home. Can you stand with them and send an urgent message
to Canada’s energy board asking them to keep the oil industry out of the Arctic?
The
explosions - 100,000 times louder than a jet engine - can disrupt the narwhal’s
migration paths and calving areas, cause permanent hearing loss, and even lead
to death.
The
Arctic is coming under increasing threat from oil companies. Baffin Bay has just
been opened up to seismic testing, and last week Shell announced it intends to
push forward with drilling new oil wells this year - with potentially
devastating consequences.
Oil
companies know seismic testing is a problem. Just a couple of years ago, the
courts agreed with the people of nearby Lancaster Sound that seismic testing
shouldn’t take place there. The reasons? Concerns for marine mammals and
traditional lifestyles, the same struggles faced by the people of Clyde River.
There
are just 900 people who live in Clyde River, but so far over 60,000 people from
all over the world have already shown their support for this brave community.
Add your voice to show the National Energy Board that the world’s eyes are on
Clyde River.
We know
that when we act together we are strong. Last September, people all around the
world supported the Mahan community in their campaign to protect local forests
from the coal industry. When the time came, India’s Supreme Court scrapped 200
coal mining licenses, including at Mahan.
Let’s
see if we can do the same for the people of Clyde River struggling against the
oil industry. Send your message: https://secure.
What happens in the Arctic affects us all. We
all benefit from keeping the Arctic healthy and free from risky oil drilling.
Send an urgent message to protect our Arctic. https://secure.
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