Cethus and different Latin American NGOs together for the re-entrance of Venezuela to the IWC


Members of the Whale Conservation Institute, WDCS Latinamerica, and Fundacion Cethus, after delivery of the equipment and applications in the Embassy of Venezuela in Argentina

Yesterday, Cethus along with other NGOs of the region carried out a joint action to support the re-entrance of Venezuela to the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

Together with other organizations engaged in research and conservation of cetaceans in different countries (including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Uruguay) Cethus was part of a synchronized action to deliver in the Venezuelan diplomatic representations in those countries, a support  letter to the re-entrance of Venezuela to the IWC.

This action led by the Coalición Venezuela por las Ballenas y Delfines, included relevant information and a note signed by more than 20 organizations asking the representatives of the diplomatic delegations that were visited to express its government the need of the re-entrance of Venezuela to the International Whaling Commission (IWC). One of the major justifications that motivated this request was that the active participation of Venezuela in this forum would strengthen the block of Latin American countries parties of the IWC, completing the presence of the region and its current conservationist position.

As reported by Jaime Bolaños, member of the Coalición Venezuela por las Ballenas y Delfines, among the organizations that took part in this campaign are: Fundación Yubarta and Fundación Natibo from Colombia; Fundación Cethus, Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas (ICB) from Argentina; Instituto Baleia Jubarte and Centro de Conservación Cetácea from Brazil; Centro Conservación Cetácea and Centro Ecoceanos from Chile; Asociación Ambiental Vida, Fundación Promar, Preserve Planet and The Leatherback Trust from Costa Rica; Fundación SELVA-Vida Sin Fronteras from Ecuador; Asociación Verde de Panamá from Panama; Acorema and ORCA from Peru; Fundemar in the Dominican Republic; Organización para la Conservación de Cetáceos from Uruguay; as well as the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), Humane Society International (HSI) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society Latinoamérica (WDCS LA).

Bolaños expects this document be taken into account with the proper relevance in the framework of the II Venezuelan Congress on Biological Diversity, organized by the host country in the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, in Caracas, during this week.

 

Fuente:
Coalición Venezuela por las Ballenas