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Recently, a small working group of the IWC (International Whaling Commission) met during the 1st week of March 2010, in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA. This working group met with the intentions to draft a proposal for the upcoming INTERSESSIONAL MEETING to take place in June of this year.
What resulted from this preliminary meeting was concluded with a number of counterproductive points. The draft aims to actually suspend the 28 year old agreement that has partially been protecting the whale species. By following through with such a proposal it would allow the nations like Iceland, Japan, Norway, and South Korea pending authorization of the proposed package, in legitimately pursuing commercial whaling. In addition, it was suggested that caps can be overseen and put on a quota on the number of whales that Japan and the pro-whaling nations can take, this being merely an illusion. The fact remains that at the present time there is no quota proposed for large scale whaling that occurs in the Antarctica and the northern Pacific areas nor would it be acceptable in allowing any large scale whaling anywhere in the world without knowing its repercussions.
As to Japan´s pseudo scientific research whaling program; Currently, Japan has brutally slaughtered thousands in a slow and agonizing manner taking advantage of the technicality in the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on commercial whaling by labeling whaling as scientific whaling. The scientific data that is collected by using lethal methods are not required by the IWC the research that results in killing whales has no actual benefit to humans or the whales themselves with many of its experiments deeply questioned and labeled by IWC members as bizarre and useless. In previous conferences the scientific community has also reported to the IWC the disturbing methods in which whales are slaughtered.
* More than 80% of whales are not killed instantly once harpooned
* Whales that are not killed instantly by the harpoon may struggle from 10 to 35 minutes before dying, exhibiting signs of severe suffering during this period
The facts remain that on March 15, 2010 Australian, French and New Zealand scientists returned from a field research using nonlethal techniques to study whales after a six-week expedition stating that this proves Japan’s annual kill of whales for scientific purposes is unnecessary.
The “scientific whale hunting”, is a front for what is clearly a multi-million dollar black market industry, an industry of greed and false science. The IWC and we as a society, have a responsibility to achieve the conservation of the whale species and not the preservation of whaling by any nation. Please take action and support to ban whaling and presently help encourage the anti whaling nations in pushing forward the alternative proposal that would include the complete phasing out of whaling in the Southern Ocean this June.
Please join us in taking action in supporting & encouraging anti whaling nations in phasing out whaling. Banning all forms of whale hunting is true conservation!
http://WhalingNoMore.org
Society for the Advancement of Animal Wellbeing
What resulted from this preliminary meeting was concluded with a number of counterproductive points. The draft aims to actually suspend the 28 year old agreement that has partially been protecting the whale species. By following through with such a proposal it would allow the nations like Iceland, Japan, Norway, and South Korea pending authorization of the proposed package, in legitimately pursuing commercial whaling. In addition, it was suggested that caps can be overseen and put on a quota on the number of whales that Japan and the pro-whaling nations can take, this being merely an illusion. The fact remains that at the present time there is no quota proposed for large scale whaling that occurs in the Antarctica and the northern Pacific areas nor would it be acceptable in allowing any large scale whaling anywhere in the world without knowing its repercussions.
As to Japan´s pseudo scientific research whaling program; Currently, Japan has brutally slaughtered thousands in a slow and agonizing manner taking advantage of the technicality in the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on commercial whaling by labeling whaling as scientific whaling. The scientific data that is collected by using lethal methods are not required by the IWC the research that results in killing whales has no actual benefit to humans or the whales themselves with many of its experiments deeply questioned and labeled by IWC members as bizarre and useless. In previous conferences the scientific community has also reported to the IWC the disturbing methods in which whales are slaughtered.
* More than 80% of whales are not killed instantly once harpooned
* Whales that are not killed instantly by the harpoon may struggle from 10 to 35 minutes before dying, exhibiting signs of severe suffering during this period
The facts remain that on March 15, 2010 Australian, French and New Zealand scientists returned from a field research using nonlethal techniques to study whales after a six-week expedition stating that this proves Japan’s annual kill of whales for scientific purposes is unnecessary.
The “scientific whale hunting”, is a front for what is clearly a multi-million dollar black market industry, an industry of greed and false science. The IWC and we as a society, have a responsibility to achieve the conservation of the whale species and not the preservation of whaling by any nation. Please take action and support to ban whaling and presently help encourage the anti whaling nations in pushing forward the alternative proposal that would include the complete phasing out of whaling in the Southern Ocean this June.
Please join us in taking action in supporting & encouraging anti whaling nations in phasing out whaling. Banning all forms of whale hunting is true conservation!
http://WhalingNoMore.org
Society for the Advancement of Animal Wellbeing
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