whaling
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Russia’s Alleged Spy Whale Has Resurfaced Off the Coast of Sweden
A beluga whale, believed to have escaped a Russian enclosure in 2019, has baffled marine biologists after traveling to Sweden.
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Japan Says It Will Withdraw From IWC And Resume Commercial Whaling
Japan announced this week it will be splitting from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in order to renew its commercial whaling practices. The announcement comes after years of Japan exploiting a loophole in IWC’s international moratorium on whale killings, and after the IWC declined to approve its bid for commercial whaling, the Wall Street Journal…
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Japanese Fleet Slaughters 333 Whales In The Name Of ‘Science’
In a disturbing repeat of last year, Japanese whalers returned to port Friday with the carcasses of 333 minke whales on board. Since 1986, a global moratorium has banned the hunting of whales, but Japan claims the killings are being done for “scientific research”.
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Humans Killed Nearly 3 Million Whales In The 20th Century
International whaling bans have been in effect since the early 1980s, but many populations have been slow to recover. Using the current International Whaling Commission database and other sources, a new study helps explain why. Basically, we killed a lot more whales than we realised.