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My Backyard From the Chapters
Junior Activists Partners
Getting involved Issue 1 l My Backyard
Argentina
Earthrace reached Argentina in May 2012 to start local campaigns for marine life and our oceans.
After a two-year period working as the Coordinator of Sea Shepherd Argentina, Fernando Labaronnie, our new Chapter Director, along with other ex-SSCS volunteers, decided to support Pete Bethune and Earthrace.
Killing the Captive Industry
There are two remaining aquariums in South America that will be targeted with campaigns to encourage the public not to pay to visit them.
Mundo Marino in Buenos Aires holds 13 dolphins as well as lonely killer whale, Kshamenk, who has been held in his tiny pool, since being‘ rescued’ from a stranding in 1992.
Goals for 2013
Among our goals for 2013 is to deliver more information to many more people through more rock music events, and to organise more beach clean-ups along our coastline.
Shocking shark fin record
While Argentina banned the removal of shark fins at sea in 2009, it still manages to hold a shocking 5th position in the world ranking for exporting shark fin.
That’ s not good and our Argentina crew plan on doing plenty in the next year to get this country off the list of those dealing in shark fin altogether.
Arty argentina We’ re very lucky at Earthrace to have many talented people on board, and Fernando is another of them.
Not only a passionate believer in conserving and protecting the oceans, he’ s a great photographer and has designed many, many great Earthrace posters using his pictures … Fernando, please may we have more this year?
Contact Earthrace Argentina: fernando @ earthrace. net
Mar del Plata Aquarium has seven dolphins that spend their days‘ entertaining’ the public and lining the pockets of their owners.
Earthrace Argentina will join our other teams around the world in campaigning against cetaceans in captivity. If we can stop the profit, we can stop the shows.
Rocking it!
Already, Fernando and his crew have organised beach clean-ups during a kayak competition and had an information stand at a huge rock event when Pennywise, an infamous band, played to more than 4,000 people in Argentina.
Kshamenk breach in Small tank terry @ orcas. net Earthrace Argentina with Fletcher Dragge, the lead guitarist of Pennywise
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