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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Navy vs. whales

According to New Standard Staff (2006) in "Navy in hot water for undersea trainings," the US Navy is killing the whales! This problem is happening near Hawaii. The Navy was starting a war game and hunting down enemies, by using mid-frequency sonar, which is harmful on whales and can lead to death. The war game is multi national, and involves many ships and submarines from Great Britain, China and South Africa. Researchers found that the Navy did a similar exercise in the same place, and the result of that was tens of dead whales all because of the practices of the US Navy. The national ocean and Atmospheric Administration is quoted as explaining the incident by saying that the US Navy's using the mid-frequency sonar was "plausible if not likely, contributing factor to the animal entering and remaining in the bay." In the year 2000 a similar incident happened to many kinds of whales after the use of the mid-frequency sonar in the Bahamas, and from that scientists found that the whales are dying from sonar, and to prove that, they showed some whales who had bleeding near and around the ears. After that, in 2004 another report came from the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission saying that the “evidence is very convincing and appears overwhelming” that the main reason of the death of the whales in the Bahamas is the mid-frequency sonar which was used by the US Navy at that time. And in 2006 the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) allowed the US Navy to use the mid-frequency sonar in their exercise for this year. Finally, federal agencies found that Navy exercise can kill thousands of fishes by a single blast, and these exercises are done at a minimum of four times every month.
Military practices should protect nations not kill them and I think that they should stop these practices, because they are very harmful to the ocean fishes and the environment.
Whales or any kind of fishes should be respected, because God did not create them to get killed by a war game where every nation is just showing its muscles for noting and the advantage of that is dead fish.
The environment is too getting destroyed from these practices, because after they finiesh this war game they will leave mauch of their garbage in the ocean which will affect badly on the ocean.
In many regions in the world people are starving because they don’t have any food to eat, and on the other side of the world people are killing fishes in thousands every year which can feed millions of poor people and all of that killing is for a war game! Governments should stop there practices if they really want to stop hunger in the world.
In conclusion, the military should stop there practices so the fishes and the environment can be more better. God put us in this world to save it not to roan it.
"Navy in hot water for undersea trainings." (2006). The new standared Retrieved from http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=3382; on the 2006-07-13.

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