Japan’s threat: 'Scientific' whaling to resume - Instablogs
Japan’s threat: 'Scientific' whaling to resume
Sasmita , pune: Jun 24 2008
Made Popular Jun 24 2008
Commercial whalehunt is likely to exist in Japan in the name of scientific whalehunt. The Japanese government has shown no indication of any sort of ban on the annual whaling in response to the proposal by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). On...
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Grace Calderon
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Grace Calderon Jun 24 2008
Quezon City, Philippines
Greenpeace says, ”Japanese delegates to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) constantly refer to a 1990 estimate of the Antarctic minke population of 760,000. But that figure was withdrawn by the IWC in 2000 because recent surveys found far fewer minkes than the older ones.

”The new estimates are half the old in every area that has been resurveyed. The IWC’s scientists do not understand the reasons for this and so far have not been able to agree a new estimate.”

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling
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