14 DAY TRIAL // Some time ago, during a meeting of the International Whaling Commission, it was agreed upon that the indigenous people of Greenland should be allowed to carry on with their whale hunting activities.
Apparently, this decision was taken on account of the residents' of Greenland having no other ways of ensuring their subsistence and providing for their families.
Naturally, when it was discovered that whale meat was being sold in restaurants and eaten by visitors to this part of the world, most environmentalists and even some government officials were outraged.
Therefore, when Denmark tried to push for allowing the people of Greenland to hunt down and kill roughly 1,350 whales between 2013-2018, all of the other European nations present at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama replied with a loud and clear “No.”
This means that, once this year comes to an end, Greenland will be stripped free of all its whaling “privileges.”
Gerard van Bohemen, one of New Zealand's representatives, presumably argued, “For the past five years, we have seen an effort by Greenland to progressively ramp up its whale catch and insist that this Commission be complicit.”
As well as this, Frederic Briand from Monaco explained that, rather than hunting whales, Greenland’s residents could very easily turn towards agriculture instead, as the lands there are not nearly as barren as they would have us believe.
Further information, which can be found on the Raw Story website, indicates that both Denmark and Greenland are planning on opposing the International Whaling Commission as far as its decision on this matter is concerned.
From where we stand, given the fact that, as we previously reported, the plant to establish a whale sanctuary already failed, perhaps it would be best to at least try and prevent further slaughters targeted at these marine mammals.