Whaling
Although subsistence whaling by aboriginal peoples has been carried on for thousands of years, it is mainly within about
the last thousand years that humans have pursued whales for commerc...
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Tension over the Makah Tribe Hunting
Whale hunting has been a way of life for the Makah Tribe for more than 2000 years. They have traditionally depended on the whale meat to survive as well as t...
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National Security: A judge has told the Navy that it cannot use high-powered sonar in its training exercises off the California coast. Saving marine animals, it seems, is more important than protec...
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Japan opened an international whaling conference Tuesday by blasting a boycott by dozens of anti-whaling nations, saying their absence would block much-needed reforms of the commission that sets re...
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The landlocked nation of Laos has agreed to join the International Whaling Commission at Japan's request and is highly likely to support Tokyo's high-profile pro-whaling campaign, Japanese official...
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The Makah Tribal Council on Sunday denounced the killing of a California gray whale that was harpooned and shot several times off Washington's coast, calling it "a blatant violation of our law" and...
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Watching a humpback whale rise from the murky depths of the Atlantic Ocean, a mile or two from the long wall of high rise hotels off Virginia Beach, is a strange but wonderful sensation.The slick b...
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Reykjavik (dpa) - Whalers in Iceland on Sunday landed the first
whale caught in Icelandic waters since the North Atlantic nation
earlier this week resumed commercial whaling...
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Japan's whaling body denied Wednesday that Iceland's recent
decision not to issue catch quotas for the coming season shows that
people no longer want to eat whale meat.
Institute of Cetace...
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More than 250 people marched through downtown Anchorage on
Sunday to call for the protection of whales and protest against Japan
and other pro-whaling nations, ahead of the start Monday of th...
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With Australia's general election just weeks away, environmental
activists are gearing up to make Japanese whaling a polling issue in
marginal seats.
Anti-whaling campaigners from the Inte...
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Whaling
Tension over the Makah Whale Hunting
Heads Or Whales?
