The Navy wants to deploy a Low-Frequency Active (LFA) sonar system across a staggering 70 percent of the world's oceans.  LFA sonar can deafen, maim and kill whales.  Its effects are so far-reaching -- and so unknown -- it could threaten the survival of entire populations of marine mammals.  And the Bush Administration has given the public only 15 days to register our opposition.

It is critical that you submit an Official Citizen Comment
immediately.

Click here to send the Bush Administration a message loud and
clear that we will NOT let them play a terrifying game of
Russian Roulette with our planet's oceans.
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_whales_0707

The American people have rejected it. The federal courts have
ruled against it. But the U.S. Navy won't take NO for an
answer.

It's bringing back a sonar system so powerful it can impact
whales 300 miles away with its ear-splitting noise. Its
effects are so far-reaching -- and so unknown -- it could
threaten the survival of entire populations of marine mammals.

Now the Navy wants to deploy this Low-Frequency Active (LFA)
sonar system across a staggering 70 percent of the world's
oceans. And the Bush Administration has given the public only
15 days to register our opposition.

It is critical that you submit an Official Citizen Comment
immediately.

Click here to send the Bush Administration a message loud and
clear that we will NOT let them play a terrifying game of
Russian Roulette with our planet's oceans.
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_whales_0707

LFA sonar can deafen, maim and kill whales. But scientists are
even more alarmed at its potential impacts on whale migration,
feeding, mating and communication -- in other words, the
biological keys to the survival of whale species.

Five years ago, NRDC won a dramatic courtroom victory blocking
global deployment of this dangerous sonar system just as the
Navy was about to launch operations. Since then, the Navy's
training with LFA sonar has been limited to one remote area.

But now the Navy is back with the same reckless proposal for
world-wide testing and training.

And, shockingly, the National Marine Fisheries Service is once
again giving the Navy a permit to harass or injure hundreds of
thousands of marine mammals each year that get in the way of
its sonar.

Send a Citizen Comment right now telling the Bush
Administration you will not accept this massive acoustic
assault on our planet's oceans.

Time is of the essence. With only six days to respond, we're
counting on you -- and those you know -- to help deluge the
administration with a tidal wave of outrage at this dangerous
proposal.

Help NRDC stop the deployment of this technological menace
before its deafening noise is unleashed on our planet's
fragile oceans and wildlife.

Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council