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Ibrahim Ghawjah
Professor Gary Pegoada
ENGL 1302
May 12, 2016
Draft 2
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) filed a case against the Navy to reduce the use of
sonar which is low-frequency. In this case, there were also other world organizations like the
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare), LCP (League for Coastal Protection) and CSI
(Cetacean Society International). They asked the courts to restrict the extensive use of sonar
which are harmful for creatures under the oceans and also to prevent the mid-frequency types of
sonar. They showed some documents of Navy that show the killing of some 170,000 creatures
underwater and include whales and dolphins due to the use of deep water sonar. These
documents also showed that injury to more than 500 whales and deafness to more than 8,000
other whales. In the lawsuit, lawyers told the court that it is the violation of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the protection of underwater creatures.
2. Conclusion
Whales and dolphins are affected by the energy of sonar and it also affects the marine
environment. That is why there is need to reduce the effects of these sounds and to save dolphins
and whales. There is also need of environmental impact assessments to detect marine life and to
mitigate threats to whales and dolphins.