Court Rules Whales To Be Protected From Navy SonarBy Sophie McAdam Military sonarcauses chaos to marine animals migration patterns, breeding and feeding ground, and their ability to communicate and hear. Weve all read stories of dead whales washing up on the beach, and the Navy has nowadmitted that its use of sonar testing activities is helping to kill off these beautiful creatures. AsTim Donaghy, a senior research specialist with Greenpeace told the Guardian in June last year,a deaf whale is a dead whale.Take into account that many injured and dead whales and dolphins do not end up stranded on a beach, and its easy to see how difficult it is to accurately assess how many marine animals are affected by sonar use in our oceans. In March, a US district court in Hawaii found that the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) improperly gave approval to the Navys use of sonar in the Pacific, a cause for celebration forenvironmental groups. This month,a federal court went one step further by rulingthat when the US Navys current contract expires in 2018, certain regulations to its activitieswill apply: Please share this good news with your friends! Image Credit This article (Finally, Court Rules Whales To Be Protected From Navy Sonar!) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under aCreative Commonslicense with attribution to the author andTrueselfnews.com. I am sure, being part of the district of Columbia Military, they will fall all over themselves obeying the law. How many more whales are going to die by 2018? Stop sonar now! Can we get a ruling from the court to protect HUMANS from heavy metal geongineering? 