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CATCA SUCCEEDED TO GET POLAND TO JOIN THE IWC!

CATCA launched an international campaign in February 2008, to get Poland to join the IWC. CATCA successfully lobbied and got Poland to join as a new member country In April this year, when Poland signed as the newest member country of the International Whaling Commission and prepared to assist to the IWC61 Annual Meeting, held in Madeira in June this year. But some few days before the IWC Plenary, the Ministry of Environment of Poland, announced us that they were not going to send a Delegation to Madeira, after paying their membership fee to assist.

As a last minute desperate action, CATCA launched a last minute urgent campaign (mostly asking for other IWC NGO's, to contact their governments to add pressure in Poland), and two days later, Dr. A. Kepel was designated as the first Polish Commissioner representing his country during the first day of the Plenary.

We are glad to report that Poland had an excellent and very active role during the IWC61 in favour of whale conservation and that our CATCA leader, served often as assistent and advisor to the new Commissioner during the Plenary.

Thanks to all our colleagues in Europe and our energetic colleagues on this side of the ocean, and all over the world, for enduring our constant urgent pleas for almost a year and half that lasted this Campaign. Special thanks to all of you who supported this Campaign of ours, while at the same time supporting our extensive and extremely busy non stop Campaign for the Canadian seals in Europe. Without you we would have not been able to accomplish this.

Thank you, Dziekuje bardzo, Gracias

SPECIAL THANKS to Dr. Kepel, Viva, Empathia, Againess and Greenpeace Poland (among dozens of animal groups and hundreds of individuals worldwide), for all their effords in supporting this campaign and for their own campaigns to get Poland to join the IWC.

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