Hayden Panettiere has posted a blog at TakePart.com about her fight to save the whales and dolphins. Although this is not really Isabel news, Hayden does mention Izzy briefly, and I thought this might interest some visitors.

The goals of our campaign are to end whaling along with all commercial dolphin and porpoise hunts worldwide while raising awareness to the other threats whales and dolphins face.

There is a brutal practice in Japan that has unnecessarily and painfully taken the lives of tens of thousands of dolphins and other small whales. They blind and frighten these helpless animals by hammering on metal poles in the water, driving them into small coves where they are trapped in nets and then killed.

I experienced this first hand when Jeff invited me and Isabel Lucas, our Australian spokesperson, to join him on a trip to the notorious dolphin-killing cove of Taiji, Japan in October 2007.

We took part in a peaceful paddle-out ceremony that was being led by fellow campaign spokesperson and Surfers for Cetacean’s co-founder Dave Rastovich.

There, we, along with three other activists, paddled out into the blood red waters where over 30 pilot whales had already been slaughtered. We honored the beautiful animals that had lost their lives there.

- TakePart Exclusive: My Fight To Save the Whales and Dolphins
- More information about the campaign