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 ACTION ALERT for the UN on behalf of Sea Turtles October 09, 2005 9:14 PM

Dear sea turtle supporter:

With your unwavering support, our effort to protect the leatherback sea turtle
from extinction has begun to bear fruit at the United Nations. In order to push
this effort further along we need your help. Please take a moment to send a
letter to your UN ambassador urging your government to do more.

The threat of extinction to sea turtles was a predominant issue at the 6th
meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on
Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLO this past June. After much debate,
that UN body passed a recommendation to implement emergency measures to protect
them and sent it to the United Nations General Assembly for a final vote on
November 28th.

While this recommendation by UNICPOLOS is a good first step, it is not enough
to prevent the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle from imminent
extinction in the Pacific.

We need your help. The UN will be discussing the exact wording of the
recommendation throughout October. The stronger the recommendation the more
likely something will be done to protect the leatherback from extinction.

If you are a US citizen please follow this link to send a letter to the US
ambassador to the United Nations urging them to strengthen the recommendation:

http://www.seaturtles.org/actionalertdetails.cfm?actionAlertID=100

While an email letter is good, a mailed or faxed letter is even better. If you
can, please copy and paste the letter from the web page into a letter and mail
or fax it to the US ambassador to the UN.

If you live outside the US please download the draft letter at:

http://www.seaturtles.org/pdf/ACFB3D.pdf


Please address it to either your highest level contact in your government, the
minister of the environment or fisheries or the UN ambassador. Contact me if
you need a name or contact information.

Unfortunately, we do not yet have any translations of this letter but if you do
translate it please send us a copy so we can share it with your colleagues.

Please forward this action alert to your friends, colleagues, members and
supporters and put a link to it on your website. Time is running out for the
leatherback!

Again, thank you for all your help.

For the turtles,


Robert Ovetz, PhD
Save the Leatherback Campaign Coordinator
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
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 October 10, 2005 10:35 AM

Signed

  

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James - October 10, 2005 10:42 AM

Thank You!  [ send green star]
 
Remember... October 10, 2005 9:16 PM

...there was another action alert directed at the UN - but this action alert is new and please send  to Urge the US to Support Stronger Protections at the UN. 

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Got it November 14, 2006 7:50 AM

Thanks for posting.

Peace and Blessings,

Brit

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