{"id":10170,"date":"2019-06-19T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/?p=10170"},"modified":"2019-06-20T07:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:32:57","slug":"the-appeal-to-the-president-of-the-russian-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/en\/the-appeal-to-the-president-of-the-russian-federation\/","title":{"rendered":"The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">V.V. Putin<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Dear<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-AU\">Vladimir Vladimirovich!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">On 9 May 2019, I completed a solo voyage aboard a rowboat from New Zealand to Cape Horn. \u00a0Spending 154 days in the Southern Ocean gave me the opportunity to observe the environment every day. \u00a0My logbooks from the first circumnavigatory journey I completed in 1991 contain daily accounts about dolphins and whales approaching the boat. \u00a0Over the 154 days I spent at sea this year, I can say that I only saw whales a handful of times, and, unfortunately, our country bears some blame for this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">In Srednyaya Bay in the Primorskiy Region, near Nakhodka, dozens of beluga whales and orcas are being kept in enclosures, awaiting sales to foreign oceanariums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Whales and dolphins belong to all of humanity. \u00a0They are an integral part of the world\u2019s oceans. \u00a0The capture of orcas and belugas only takes place in our country, as it is forbidden in all others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">The people and companies making money from their sale aren\u2019t just parasitically exploiting our country\u2019s environmental resources, but exploit resources belonging to the whole world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Citizens of Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Chile have requested that we stop the barbaric business taking place in our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">I know of your enormous contribution to preserving the populations of the Far-Eastern leopard and Amur tiger. \u00a0Let us stop the extermination of whales too! \u00a0As an honorary resident of the city of Nakhodka, and having lived for more than thirty years in the region, I feel ashamed before the citizens of our country and all of the countries of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">The whales currently located in those \u201cwhale prisons\u201d were born in the ocean and must live in their natural habitat, not as someone\u2019s property. \u00a0I am sure that ecotourism and whale-watching will bring more to the Primorskiy Region than the capture of the whales and their sale to China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">I appeal to you, as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, to initiate the drafting of a law banning the capture of marine mammals in Russia for subsequent resale to Russian and foreign oceanariums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">I am counting on your support in prohibiting the capture of whales for water amusement parks, just as in the past you have prohibited the capture of the Far-Eastern leopard for zoos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Most respectfully,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Fedor Konyukhov<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Explorer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Priest<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Full member of the Russian Geographical Society<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">19.06.2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin \u00a0 Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! \u00a0 On 9 May 2019, I completed a solo voyage aboard a rowboat from New Zealand to Cape Horn. \u00a0Spending 154 days in the Southern Ocean gave me the opportunity to observe the environment every day. \u00a0My logbooks from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation - Fedor Konyukhov<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/en\/the-appeal-to-the-president-of-the-russian-federation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation - Fedor Konyukhov\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. 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