Hayden Panettiere in Sydney Australia on April 1 to Ask for 1 Million Petition Signatures...

Hayden Panettiere in Sydney Australia on April 1 to Ask for 1 Million Petition
Signatures to End Commercial Whaling

Whaleman Foundation spokesperson and real life Hero travels down under to
oppose any whaling deals and call for 1 million signatures on her petition at
SocialVibe.com.

SYDNEY, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hayden Panettiere will be visiting
Sydney, Australia on April 1 to rally support from Aussies, urging them to
sign the "Save the Whales Again!" petition at SocialVibe.com and to oppose any
negotiations that will legitimize commercial whaling and overturn the existing
moratorium. Hayden will be delivering the petition to the International
Whaling Commission at their meeting this June in Madeira.

"This is the easiest way for people to make a big difference in our fight
against commercial whaling and the Japanese dolphin drive hunts. All we need
people to do is go to http://www.socialvibe.com and sign the petition," Hayden
said. "Please help us reach our goal of 1 million people and help us stop
this cruel and needless slaughter."

Since the whaling moratorium went into effect in 1986, over 25,000 great
whales, including endangered species, have been killed by Japan, Norway, and
Iceland while Japanese fisherman have killed hundreds of thousands of dolphins
and small whales in their coastal drive hunts.

Recent studies have shown that whale and dolphin meat is loaded with Mercury,
DDT, PCB's and other contaminates making it unsafe for human consumption.

Hayden has been a supporter and spokesperson of The Whaleman Foundation since
2005. In February 2007, she, along with several of her "Heroes" co-stars
officially launched the Foundation's "Save the Whales Again!" Campaign. Her
now famous first swim in Taiji, Japan to protest the dolphin drive fisheries
later that year established her as a champion of the cause.

About The Whaleman Foundation
The Whaleman Foundation is an oceanic research, conservation, and production
organization dedicated to preserving and protecting dolphins, whales, and
their ocean habitat. Our mission is to end all commercial and lethal
scientific research whaling worldwide, while raising public awareness to all
the other threats dolphins and whales face including toxic pollution, noise
pollution, global warming, loss of habitat, entanglement in fishing nets,
collisions with ships, and increasing whaling. We are accomplishing this via
our "Save the Whales Again!" Campaign. For more information, visit
www.whaleman.org and www.savethewhalesagain.org

SOURCE The Whaleman Foundation

Michelle Bega, +1-310-854-8163, mbega@rogersandcowan.com, for Hayden
Panettiere; or Jeff Pantukhoff, +1-808-283-4465, whaleman@maui.net, or Peter
Carrette, +61-02-9130-5064 peter@iconimages.com.au, for The Whaleman
Foundation