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Prohibition on commercial whale hunting
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BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Jun-19-2006 17:07

An international committee recently decided in all her wisdom that a prohibition on commercial whale hunting is no longer required. They must have forgotten that in a not so long ago past, that species was on the brink of distinction.

Does anyone know a link where you can sign a petition against this regretful decision? It might not be much but every little bit helps.

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BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Jun-19-2006 17:43

Apologies for all the typo's but I'm more or less typing in the dark now :)

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jun-19-2006 17:49

This is a new one Rhiemma. The internation Wahling Commssion met at St Kitts last week and passed a 'draft resolution' (33-32 with China abstaining) that is very long winded :

http://www.iwcoffice.org/_documents/commission/IWC58docs/Resolution2006-1.pdf
(sorry it's a .pdf file)

but which basically says it's time we re-assessed whaling because the moratorium was only meant to be 'temporary'. ie my harpoon hand is itchy.

So it's only a draft resolution and any resolution that IS passed by IWC to come into effect has to be passed 75% majority, but it's a foot in the door for Japan, Russia, Iceland... et al.

As one greenpeace journo said "The only truly appalling thing in the St Kitts Declaration is the fact that the IWC has backed the idea that whales eat so many fish that they are a threat to the fish stocks of small coastal communities and therefore it is a food security issue." He then goes on to use some colourful language to refute that argument lol...

Personally the really dangerous vote at the IWC was the resolution where Japan wanted to have the IWC use secret ballots. Luckily that was defeated. That would allow Japan etc to further corrupt the voting sytem, and allow countries to vote against their constituents wishes.

Here's alink to Greenpeace's page on it all.

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/IWC2006-mid

And I apologies to any people whose communities are sustained by whaling. I have no problems with aboriginal whaling rights whatsoever, only industrial whaling.

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