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The basic case against whaling
December 28th - Day 30
- Whales are especially vulnerable to over hunting because they reproduce very slowly. Plus, a number of other environmental problems - from global warming to toxic pollution - also threaten whale populations. (more)
- Commercial whaling has a bad track record of opposing, and cheating on, conservation measures - while hunting first one, then another, species to near extinction.
In fact, all of the "great whales" were hunted to near extinction, except the minke whale. Because of their small size, minke whales were not targeted by whalers until the 1970s, and the 1986 moratorium on whaling has, so far, spared them the fate of the larger baleen whales. (more)
- The Japanese Fisheries Ministry claims that things are different now, and that somehow whaling will not lead to the depletion of whale populations, as it has in the past. That the whaling industry has learned its lesson, and can be trusted to act responsibly.
However, their actions put lie to their words. Their vote buying, continued whaling in an internationally agreed on sanctuary and their dishonesty about the nature of their whaling program shows that they still can not be trusted on whale management issues. (more)
Also see:
"It's wrong to think that because we've had a temporary ban on commercial whaling the whales are protected - they're not. Unless the Governments of the world act to stop them Japan will overturn the ban and full-scale whaling will begin again."
-- Yuko Hirono, Greenpeace Japan |
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