Marino, Senior Lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology and
an adjunct faculty member in the department of psychology at Emory
University, said in an email to Animal Policy Examiner, “In
response to building momentum from various recent events involving
dolphins and whales, the groundbreaking Helsinki meeting brought
together experts in philosophy, law and cetacean science.”
“The result is the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans,”
Marino explained, “which we will employ as an active document in
a number of ways throughout our campaign. Right now we are asking for
support by collecting signatures for the Declaration.”
“Please join us and sign on,”
said Marino. “And send to everyone you know, including any
organizations that you work with. The more signatures the Declaration
has, the more powerful it will be as we prepare to launch our campaign
to recognize the basic rights of whales and dolphins and make the
change that is a long time coming.”
Presenters at the WDCS Helsinki meeting included:
Thomas Wilhelmsson, Rector of the University of Helsinki
Welcome address
Chris Butler-Stroud, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, United Kingdom
“Fostering Moral and Legal Change Towards Cetacean Rights”
Matti Häyry, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
“Whale Rights and Applied Ethics: The ideas of dignity, solidarity, and precaution”
Sudhir Chopra, Cambridge Central Asia Forum, United Kingdom
“Revisiting Whales’ Right to Life”
Thomas White, Loyola Marymount University, United States of America
“Beyond Personhood: Cetaceans and the Challenge of Identifying Species-Appropriate Standards”
Hal Whitehead, Dalhousie University, Canada
“Cetacean Cultures and Cetacean Rights”
Lori Marino, Emory University, United States of America
“Cetacean Rights: A Test of our Ethical Consistency”
Nicholas Entrup, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Germany
“Cetacean Rights: Confronting the Sustainably Paradigm and Deciding Who is ‘Beyond Use’
Paola Cavalieri, Etica & Animali/Conference organizer, Italy
“Cetaceans: From Bare Life to Nonhuman Others”
Katerina Lorenzatos Makris is the author of 17 novels for
publishers including Avon, E.P. Dutton, and Simon & Schuster, and
hundreds of articles for publications such as National Geographic
Traveler, San Francisco Chronicle, and Veggie Life. She wrote a
teleplay for CBS and short fiction for The Bark magazine. With coauthor
Shelley Frost, she wrote Your Adopted Dog
(The Lyons Press). Holding a B.A. in Environmental Science Studies and
a lifelong interest in animal issues, she spends a lot of her time
battling a severe addiction to dogs.
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