First of all, sorry to the administrators and all users for pedaling something OT on the forum. That being said, reading Wilbur Smiths books has left me with a sense of wanting to conserve the world that we live in, i think chances are that he has passed this on to other readers.
At this moment a fleet of japanese ships are headed to the southern ocean to slaughter a quota of whales claiming "scientific research" everybody knows that with the quotas they have this is complete bollocks.
The editor of a New Zealand newspaper hand delivered a letter to the embassy asking for Japan to act in stoping this fleet.
The same paper has sponsored and online petition against this whaling.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-japans-whaling-programme.html
if you feel strongly about this then follow the above link and sign the petition, and if you feel real strongly post this message in other forums that you frequent. the more signatures the better.