Fur Seals

A couple months ago, I joined the organization called "GREENPEACE". It is an environmental group of activists that work to make the world a better place. It lobbies for environmentally friendly legislation in Congress and strives to inform everyone about the major current issues with the environment and animal populations. Ever since I joined, I have received several e-mails updating me on such issues. The latest e-mail was both shocking and disturbing. 

It read: 

"Dear Briana,

Last year I visited a stunning fur seal rookery on the Pribilof Islands- only to learn now that dead baby fur seals are washing ashore on the beaches, most likely due to starvation. These islands in Alaska's Bering Sea are also the home to the world's most abundant food fish- Alaskan Polluck. 

The fur seals' food, pollock, is being vacuumed away by massive industrial fishing ships, and wildlife is starving as a result. Steller sea lions, are being forced to spend more energy foraging to take in fewer calories, and their birth rates and youth survival rates have declined.

For years, Greenpeace has warned that industrial fishing would destroy this fragile environment, but the fisheries managers have buckled under pressure from industry. As a Greenpeace ocean campaigner, I've personally been ridiculed and insulted for these warnings. 

I wish more than anything that I had been wrong. But now we know that the pollock population is on the brink of collapse, and along with it the survival of marine creatures that depend on pollock."

Greenpeace tries to grab the attention of every person so that they will donate and help change the problems on our planet. It is really easy to sign up with the group, and members often come to Chapman to recruit people. All you have to do is donate a minimum of 20$ a month to their cause.