The European Union agreed on June 5, 2009 to take a unified stand against whaling. Environmental ministers meeting in Luxembourg adopted a common position that supports the current moratorium against commercial whaling, sets up whale sanctuaries, and encourages the use of non-lethal methods to collect scientific data. “There is no need to kill whales to [...]
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Europe Unites To Defend The Whales
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments · European Union, International Whaling Commission, Whale News
Greenpeace Fails To Stop Whale Slaughter
February 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Dolphin Encounters, Whale Slaughter
You may have heard Greenpeace boasting that they helped save the Minke Whales from the japanese whalers, but this is not true. It was the Sea Shepherd organization that kept the whalers on the run because the japanese knew that Sea Shepherd would aggresively intervene to stop the them from harpooning Whales. Greenpeace was just looking for a [...]
Tags:Dolphins·Greenpeace fails to stop whale slaughter·japanese whalers·Whales
Whales Deserve To Live Peacefully
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Japanese Whaling
What upsets me the most about the Japanese hunting and killing whales and dolphins and any other nationality that does this is that they are interfering with another evolved mammalian species right to live peacefully and happily upon our earth. They don’t take the time to understand why cetaceans are so peaceful and seem so [...]
