Urgent Plea to Save Critically Endangered Western Gray Whales at Sakhalin Island

(Pacific Environment, Berkeley, 19 February 2009) JBIC and private banks conditioned their financing for Sakhalin II on Sakhalin Energy's support of the scientific expert Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel (WGWAP), including implemention of all reasonable recommendations of the WGWAP, and providing all timely and relevant information and data to the WGWAP. The disturbing news in this IUCN report shows an apparent lack of respect for these ECA environmental conditions..