Last week, the chair of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Cristian Maquieira, proposed a draft on a new international agreement aimed at regulating whaling across the world's oceans. The proposal was neither black nor white, and featured numerous compromises, on the part of both pro-whaling and anti-wh... |
29 April 2010
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is so keen at promoting a compromise between nations opposing and countries favoring whaling that it appears to forget why it was set up in the first place. This was made obvious in a proposal that the organization released about five days ago, in which a number of new &ldqu... |
27 April 2010
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Representatives from New Zealand recently said that the country's position on the issue of whaling is that compromise from all sides needed to be accepted. They said that whaling nations should be allowed to hunt some whales each year, but that quotas shouldn't be as high as they were at the moment. Additio... |
1 April 2010
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The Scandinavian nation of Norway incited international outrage recently, when it announced that it would increase its maximum whale-hunting quota by more than 45 percent, as opposed to the 2009 level. The move was sparked by nothing more than political interests that this country and Japan had in preserving the usel... |
9 December 2009
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The environment in which we developed, made up of sounds, images, tastes and touches, is incredibly complex when compared with that of whales. These noble animals live in a world where seeing is limited to a few meters at best, but where hearing is king. The best of these animals can communicate over unbelievably lon... |
23 June 2009
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Despite hopes in this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting to resolve the most pressing issues in the area at this point, little progress seems to have been actually made. Talks have now come to a standstill, as discussions between pro- and anti-whaling nations find no resolve. Nations such as I... |
11 May 2009
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A fisheries official in South Korea announced on Thursday that the country was considering resuming its commercial fishing practices, if the International Whaling Commission allowed Japan to continue its cull of minke whales in its territorial waters. The situation, which will be discussed in June at the next IWC mee... |
23 April 2009
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Recent information indicates the fact that Japan is currently engaged in obtaining a new deal of whaling, and that it's trying to persuade the six nations that make up the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to allow it to continue its bogus “scientific” whaling program that claims the lives of mo... |
27 January 2009
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