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Beautiful and driven actress Hayden Panettiere is begging you once again to save the whales. The Heroes star, 19, has made this cause one of her goals in life.

A year ago, Hayden went to Japan to try and stop the slaughter of some whales there. That effort ended with a violent protest and a warrant for her arrest.

This time around, Panettiere says she is going to go about things a little differently - by gathering 1,000,000 signatures for a Whaleman Foundation petition.

Here's Hayden Panettiere's plea for the whales ...