my parents and I above IFAW's vessel ''The Song Of The Whale' at the helm!

I had a great evening  meeting the team at IFAW at a reception for MPs to see their whale research vessel’ The Song Of The Whale’ moored in St Katherines Docks in London last night, July 6th 2011.It sets off to Jersey today to the International Whaling Commission 2011 annual meeting. IFAW help to keep the ban on whaling in place. The vessel is important because it demonstrates to MPs that whales do not have to be killed to be studied for ‘scientific purposes’ as some countries claim like Japan. The vessel has state of the art monitoring and photo digitaling equipment.

I spoke to a couple of MPs who were attending amongst many other MPs and Richard Benyon MP who gave a great talk on why we need to protect whales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-14044711 Re3ad more here from the BBC  coverage