Whales Video:
Giant Singers of the Deep
Humpback Whales are the performers of the longest songs of all the animal kingdom, they change their songs every year, and all the males sing the same melodies at the end of the winter.
The Marine Mammals Sanctuary in Dominican waters is one of the best assets that the world still has for protecting this noble and spectacular giants of the seas.
The humpback whale population has grown in the last decade at a very stimulating rate from a number of approximately 12,500 whales in the year 1992 to a 17,500 in the last year 2005, just in the Dominican waters area. This numbers are approximated according to Marine Biologist Oswaldo Vasquez who has worked for many years with this whales aboard many scientific ships including the NOAA investigation vessel Gordon Gunter, as a Dominican consultant in the program for monitoring the North Atlantic Humpback Whales, YONAH Project, Years of North Atlantic Humpback Whales and MONAH Project, More Of North Atlantic Humpback Whales.
This positive growth is happening because of the International Whaling Commission, IWC, who has forbidden the whaling ships industry to hunt the humpbacks.
Countries like Japan, Greenland, and Norway, still press for an opening permission to kill a number of one thousand whales every year as scientific kills. We all know this is a lie and that they demand whale meat for their primitive craving for exotic dishes.
The Dominican Republic on principle has always been opposed to this, and never in all our history have recalled a single case of whale killing in our waters, on the contrary we have developed a program to make good business for the tourist industry community to observe this spectacular gentle giants swimming in our secure waters in their reproduction season.
Paradoxically this success of the humpback whale recovery is the mayor enemy they face in their immediate future, the arguments used by the whalers to reopen the killing season on this superb animals, is that they are no longer in peril of extinction.
Supporting the whales and all the marine mammals is part of our mission as conservationists. The Sea Shepard Conservation Society among other organizations is working in this field and they must have yours and our strong support.
We invite you the next year 2007 to come and visit this Dominican Whale Sanctuary and you may have one of the most fantastic experiences of your life.
Related Links:
Sea Sheaper Conservation Society
NOAA - National Oceanic & Atmostpheric Administration
