--- description: "Your decision could put an end to the needless slaughter of endangered whales by Iceland," she writes title: Pamela Anderson Wants Vladimir Putin to Save the Whales image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f78e10957f8ac23/69885a04a988ca5bf66b35d7/pamela-anderson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Pamela Anderson Wants Vladimir Putin to Save the Whales  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 8, 2015 1:42 PM CUT  Pamela Anderson in June 2015. Pamela Anderson in June 2015.Paul A. Hebert—Invision/AP  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 8, 2015 1:42 PM CUT What do Pamela Anderson and Vladimir Putin have in common? Try a love of the outdoors: The Canadian-American actress and longtime animal rights activist is calling on the Russian president and [fellow animal-lover](http://vladimirputinwithanimals.tumblr.com/ "undefined") to take action against the whale meat trade. Over the weekend Anderson [wrote an open letter to Putin](http://qz.com/446754/pamela-anderson-has-written-a-letter-to-vladimir-putin/ "undefined") asking him to block passage of the _Winter Bay_, a ship reportedly containing 1,700 tons of fin whale that’s meat en route to Japan from Iceland—two of three countries in the world where whaling is still legal, _Quartz_ reports. The ship is in violation of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which has already prevented _Winter Bay_ from passing through the Panama or Suez canals, [according to the Sea Shepard Conservation Society](http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2015/07/06/pamela-anderson-asks-putin-to-stop-whale-meat-smugglers-1718 "undefined"). The Russian Federation is a CITES signatory, which means Putin has the power to block the Winter Bay from going through Russian territory via the Bearing Strait should he hear Anderson’s plea. Here’s her full letter from July 5, [via _Quartz_](http://Sea Shepherd Conservation Society "undefined"): --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3949238/pamela-anderson-vladimir-putin-whales/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3949238/pamela-anderson-vladimir-putin-whales/"},"headline":"Pamela Anderson Wants Vladimir Putin to Save the Whales","datePublished":"2015-07-08T13:42:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:02:53.055Z","description":"\"Your decision could put an end to the needless slaughter of endangered whales by Iceland,\" she writes","url":"https://time.com/3949238/pamela-anderson-vladimir-putin-whales/","keywords":["celebrities","russia","Environment","Vladimir Putin"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f78e10957f8ac23/69885a04a988ca5bf66b35d7/pamela-anderson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f78e10957f8ac23/69885a04a988ca5bf66b35d7/pamela-anderson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pamela Anderson","caption":"Pamela Anderson","creditText":"Paul A. Hebert—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3949238/pamela-anderson-vladimir-putin-whales/","name":"Pamela Anderson Wants Vladimir Putin to Save the Whales"}}]}] ```