Featured article - Thursday, March 11, 2010 16:41
By Sir Ronald Sanders, Syndicated Contributor
It’s the high seas equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot. Several Caribbean governments are harpooning their own sustainable tourism industry by supporting Japan’s ruthless campaign to continue killing whales.
A group of International Whaling Commission (IWC) nations meeting from March 2 to 4 in Florida is reported to have considered recommending to the full membership that Japan, Iceland and Norway be allowed to hunt whales despite a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling. Japan, in particular, would no longer have to pretend that, in killing thousands of whales every year, it is doing so for “scientific” purposes.
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[caption id="attachment_3599" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="CHIBA, JAPAN - JUNE 21: Japanese Fishermen slaughter a 9.95m Baird's Beaked whale at Wada Port on June 21, 2007 in Chiba, Japan. Under the coastal whaling program, Japan is only allowed to hunt a limited number of whales every...
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