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INFR MATION
January, February, March, 1976
GOVERNOR LAMM URGES COLORADOANS
NOT TO BUY GOODS FROM JAPAN OR
RUSSIA TILL THEY STOP WHALING
Colorado Save the Whales Symposiuni Precedes
Whale Week
In an Executive Order issued March 1, 1976, Hon.
Richard D. Lamm of Colorado proclaimed Save the
Whale Week March 7-13. The Proclamation reads as
follows:
Whereas, the complexity and variety of life forms
that inhabit this planet with us add to the beauty and
quality of our lives; and
Whereas, whales arc just now being recognized as
gentic, social and perhaps next to the human race. the
rost intelligent animal on earth; and
Whereas, modern expensive whaling fleets have
sysictnatically driven the larger species of whales to near
extinction and arc turning to snialler species as well as
smaller and younger members within each species; and
Whereas, Japan and Russia account for over 85% of
the 30,000 whales killed each year; and
Whereas. the only justification for continuation of
his practice is short tern economic profit since virtually
all products which are derived from whales have
substitutes which don't require the extermination of a
species; and
Whereas, ColorAdo, being at such alitudes where
oxygen is in much more limited supply than alone the
coasl, is tied very dosely to the delicate balance of the
ocean where 70 -a of our oxygen is photosynthetically
produced; and
Whereas, it is felt that as the whales go so go the
oceans, and as the oceans go so goes the environment
causing the wbale to become the symbol of the inter-
national enviroinmcrtal movement;
Now, therefore, I, Richard D. Lamm Governor of the
Statc of Colorado, do hereby proclaim the week of March
7-13. 1976, as Save the Whale Week in the State of
Colorado, aid urge atl cifizens of Colorado to join with
the five million Americans who have pledged to refrain
from purchasing Japanese and Russian goods and
services untfl these countries agree to stop whaling
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE
P.O. Box 3650, Washington, D. C. 20007
Vol 25 No. I
FAY BRISK HONORED FOR
ANIMALPORT BATTLE
Senator Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) presented the
Albert Schweitzer Medal of the Animal Welfare Institute
to Fay Brisk on January 10, 1976, the 101st anniversary
of Dr. Schweitzer's birth.
In presenting the medal, Senator Weicker referred to
very personal experiences in matters of concern to all of
you in this room. It is true that we passed through the
Senate at the tail end of last session a bill for humane
treatment of small animals being transported by air and
rail Ihat legislation cane into being because of the
efforts of Fay Brisk. Nothing has a greater impact on an
individual or Congress as a whole than being confronted
with a situation deserving of legislation. Nobody could
spend the evening I spent with Fay and those dogs at the
Washington National Airport, seeing the cruelty that was
vseited on those animals, without trying to do something
about it. Don't be too concerned over the fact that it took
almost five years to get action. He told of other
long-(eayed legislatlion,
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Whales in the Rockies
A Colorado Save the Whales Symposium was held at
the University of Colorado at Fort Collins, March 5, 6,
and 7, 1976. Coordinated by Steve Smith and Bruce
Imfned of the Colorado Student Coalition the symapo-
sium featured a talk entitled Ihe Bloody Whaling
Business by Rex Weyler of the Greenpeace Foundation
following a fihm of last surmer's confrontation with the
Russians 150 mites off the Calfornia coast where sperm
whales were being harpoonced. After a send-off by some
25,000 we-tllwisheis in Vancouver, British Columbia, the
Phyllis Cormack, manned by a Greenpeace crew, went t
sea to find w hales and whaers and to attempt to put a
human shield between the two by lowering two Zodiacs at
the site of the harpooning.
e photograph shows one of the two -odoics with the
Russian factory ship and two catcher boats, Weyler
described how the harpoon gun shot just over the zodiac
killing a female sperin whal, A mnale sperre whale
attacked the Russian catcher boat, but his brave attempt
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