This is Jan here. ( Ron insisted I put that as he obviously doesn't give a wotsit about the environment, wolves, and now whales.) Actually he does but nowhere near as strongly as I do.

What is going on with Obama? What is he thinking of, or rather not thinking of? He first decides to let the Bush bill stand, allowing Ken Sleazy Salazar to take wolves off the Endangered Species list. (You may be interested to know that if you put Salazar in the spell checker, it comes up with two words, sleaze and sleazy.) Killing hundreds and hundreds of wolves, and that little gem is still going on now. Wolves that came from families of wolves which were bred in captivity, a lot of them. Do you know how much that little lot cost? Talk about wasting our money.

Then Obama decides that maybe drilling in the Arctic isn't such a bad idea, and how about off-shore drilling too, and maybe anywhere else we can drill for oil while we are at it.

Now in an altogether shocking move, President Obama's delegation to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has decided to back a plan that would legalize commercial whaling, including in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, for the first time since the international ban was passed over 20 years ago in 1986. Now the so-called Whale Sanctuary has never in fact been a sanctuary for the whales in the last twenty years, because Japan has has never stopped whaling. Has anyone done anything about this flagrant flouting of the law in all those years? No, not any government body anyway. Only 'The Sea Shepherd' with Captain Paul Watson at the helm and his crew of volunteers have tried to expose Japan's illegal activities, and disrupt their dirty business.

Greenpeace has verbally and peacefully tried to expose Japan, to little effect in all the years since the so-called whale sanctuary was passed into law. Greenpeace of course was the first group to call the world's attention to the brutality of whaling.

Back in 1975, Greenpeace launched the world's first ever 'Save the Whales' campaign. The images brought back from the first voyage sparked an international outcry and moved a generation of environmentalists into action. Eventually, after a decade of intense activism, the IWC agreed to ban commercial whaling. That was 1986 and it was one of their greatest moments as an organization.

I am a long-standing member of Greenpeace, been with them since their beginning. I also support The Sea Shepherd and Paul Watson's other vessels, along with many other environmental organizations. I care deeply about this wonderful planet of ours and the amazing diversity of species living on it, or at least desperately trying to live on it!

If the American, British, Canadian, German, etc, etc, people, i.e. you out there, care about this planet at all, now is the time to show it. Write to your leaders and say that you will not stand by while others flout the law. Nor will you stand by and let the Whaling Commission reintroduce legal whaling again. Unless you start caring and emailing or writing, phoning or what ever else you can do, you can kiss goodbye to many species on the earth now.

Obama must know that we will not stand for whaling becoming law again. I have not supported him all these years with my time, effort and money, to stand by while he reneges on his promises, and the war is another broken promise. Do not stand by and let these travesties come into effect or continue, as with the wolves and the war. It's your money he is wasting. Would you spend your money on the things Obama is allowing? If not tell him so. It is the only way to make the government, who are paid by us, act on our behalf and not big business.

Don't allow this to continue; we have more power than you might think, especially now with this president. Now get up and do something!

I have started a Greenpeace wave on Facebook. Please join the wave for whales.

Ron insisted that this be grammatically correct, so I tried!!