Wednesday August 12, 2009, 1:45 am
TAKE ACTION HERE : http://www.amcs.org.au/default2.asp?active_page_id=631#

Less than 1% of our South West oceans are protected despite being home to some of the most spectacular, unique and vulnerable marine life on earth. They need our help. The government is considering the future of these waters right now. We urgently need to tell them 1% protection is not enough.

TAKE ACTION

Making Waves
After many months of campaigning, AMCS and our colleagues have reason to be optimistic for the South West. The Australian Government has just released a map of areas they are assessing for possible protection. Potentially over half of the 1.3 million square kilometre stretch of ocean from Kalbarrie in Western Australia to Kangaroo Island in South Australia could be protected.

This means there is the chance to protect critical areas such as the Perth Canyons, one of only two known places in Australia where blue whales come to feed.

However, the deal is far from sealed. We need your help to convince our MPs across the country that the public wants high protection for our South West and its unique but unprotected marine life.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:42 am
Signed, thanks Claudia.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:45 am
Noted & signed, fingers crossed on this one ~ Thanks Claudia

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:50 am
Noted & signed. Thanks

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:57 am
Thanks Claudia. I have signed (hope it went through all right).

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 3:02 am
Thanks Claudia......1% is just a joke and since a lot of the traffic through the protected areas is transient, the protected marine life equates to a lot less that 1%

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 3:29 am
Thanks Claudia - signed!

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 4:52 am
Thank you Claudia.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 5:07 am
Done!

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 5:10 am
Signed!

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 5:13 am
Signed and sent Claudia, hope you had a nice weekend away. Thanks for everything you do. Hugs, Rain

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 5:20 am
Done and dusted

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 5:48 am
Gladly signed. Thank you Claudia.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 5:55 am
Action taken. Thanks Claudia.

Thank you for your support

Your commitment to protecting Australian marine wildlife is appreciated.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 6:20 am
This is wonderful Claudia. Thanks for the help and support rendered to the beautiful creatures of the deep!

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 6:52 am
Noted. The letter/petition read in a way that I thought only Australian citizens could sign it so I did not do so, but I do suport the campaign wholeheartedly. If I overlooked or misunderstood, will you please post a note and I will backtrack and sign. Thanks so much, Claudia.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 7:24 am
Claudia I too questioned whether to sign with the intro of petition beginning...parliament.., but there was a choice for country, so of course I signed! Should this be reworded so more from other countries will readily sign?

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 7:27 am
Noted and signed.Thank you Claudia.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 8:08 am
Hi Claudia, It won't let me sign it keeps saying invalid e-mail address??? I tryed several times. :(

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 8:55 am
I received this thismorning and tried to sign it then. It's still not going through. I'm getting the same as Tierney: Invalid email address!!
=((
Sorry, I'll keep trying. Thanks Claudia.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 12:26 pm
Thank you for your support
Thanks Claudia

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 1:30 pm
Noted & signed

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 1:33 pm
CLAUDIA; WHEN I TAB ON THIS STORY, THIS IS WHAT CAME UP:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch: 'CInt'

/admin/includes/common.asp, line 12

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:05 pm
Noted and signed Claudia. Thanks.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:08 pm
Hi Claudia! I am not from Australia, but what a global issue this is. I got the "invalid email address" error as well, but put .com.uk.co at the end of my email address and it went through!...bizarre.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 4:18 pm
Noted and signed,thank you.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 4:35 pm
Noted and signed/thanks Claudia

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 6:41 pm
Noted and signed. TY Claudia

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 7:02 pm
Claudia, can't sign - they should open the petition to the whole world. But I'm there in spirit.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 8:29 pm
Thank you for your support

Your commitment to protecting Australian marine wildlife is appreciated.
Thank U Claudia

Thursday August 13, 2009, 10:44 am
Thannnx.... amazing how the most important peaces of the puzzles are left out

Thursday August 13, 2009, 12:42 pm
Thank you, Claudia, signed and noted! Living in Florida where we also are surrounded by the beautiful waters of the oacean, I certainly understand the utmost necessity AND urgency to protect these waters!

Thursday August 13, 2009, 1:42 pm

Noted&signed.

Thursday August 13, 2009, 5:22 pm
Thanks for posting this Claudia, already signed..Cheryl.

Friday August 14, 2009, 5:15 am
thanks claudia :) noted and signed

Friday August 14, 2009, 6:24 am
Our Oceans and Marine Life are under preasure the like of which has never been before.Any action to address this imbalace is deserving of our support.I have great pleasure in signing this petition and wish it every success.

Friday August 14, 2009, 11:23 am
I am so glad you let us know about this. Here in the US we don't always hear about other parts of the world where we can help with signatures. Thank you and thank you CARE 2.

Sunday August 16, 2009, 3:31 am
Signed, thanks, Claudia.

Sunday August 16, 2009, 8:52 pm
Thank you, signed...
"Thank you for your support.
Your commitment to protecting Australian marine wildlife is appreciated."