What name do you give a whale? Mister Splashy Pants of course!

For those who are wondering what I am talking about, cast your minds back to my post titled A whale by any other name…in October, when I reported that Greenpeace had launched a competition to name a whale.

Apparently over 11,000 submissions were entered, which were narrowed down to 30 and then it was up to the public to vote. Of those 30 short listed names, 150,000 (over 78 percent) voted Mister Splashy Pants as their favourite.

However now that the humpback whale has been named, he needs your help! He might have a great name but he and his friends are still in danger. The only way to be 100 percent sure that ‘Splashy’ doesn’t get harpooned is to stop killing all whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

You can help Mister Splashy Pants and all of the other whales by clicking here and signing Greenpeace’s petition calling upon the Japanese Fisheries Agency to promise not to kill Mister Splashy Pants.

Come on GGG readers let’s save Splashy Pants !

What name would you give to a whale? Well Greenpeace want to know.

The environmental charity are working with scientists to track humpback whales via satellite as they migrate from breeding and calving areas in the tropical South Pacific to the feeding grounds of the Southern Ocean.

This ‘Great Whale Trail’ project will produce important information on the movements and migratory destinations of humpback whales from small, unrecovered populations off Rarotonga (Cook Islands) and New Caledonia.

This non-lethal scientific research will produce vital information which will help Greenpeace with their campaign against Japan’s unnecessary lethal “research” in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. This so called sanctuary was meant to be a safe haven, however every year the Fisheries Agency of Japan send a fleet of whaling ships to kill in the name of science.

For the third year running the Fisheries Agency of Japan will aim to hunt down almost 1,000 minke whales. This year, they also plan to kill 50 threatened humpback whales and 50 endangered fin whales.

These amazing mammals will die for so-called ‘scientific research ‘which is actually just commercial whaling in disguise. In contrast, Greenpeaces ‘the Great Whale Trail project is contributing to real scientific efforts without killing whales.In order to create awareness about the Great Whale Trail project, Greenpeace will be launching a competition to name the whales, as although they haven’t yet cracked the code of whale language yet – they are pretty confident that the Whales don’t call themselves, ’33001, or 37232′, which are some of the names they have now. If you want to be part of the naming competition and get regular email updates on the whale’s progress down to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, sign up for their free ‘Whale Mail’ newsletter. I have signed up and will be entering the competition – though I bet a lot of people will be suggesting ‘Moby Dick’ so I better get my creative thinking cap on. Once they have decided the winning names I will let you know. In the mean time why not watch some ‘Whale TV’.