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Published: December 13, 2007
JAPANESE WHALERS AT IT AGAIN
The decision of Japanese whalers to slaughter over a thousand whalesin the Antartic in their latest season demonstrate deplorable contempt for the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling issued by the International Whaling Commission.This is not the First time Japan has brazenly launched its whaling campaign.This is ostensibly for 'reseacrch' but,occasionally,it has also cited 'Sovereign Right' and 'Cultural Traditions.' The whalers have outraged already a dismayed international community by adding to their list 50 endangered Hump Backs,which are covered by a moratorium that dates back to 1963.An equal number of Fin whales are to be killed besides the familiar quarry- Thw MINKE.
Japan's huntershave perversely exploited a loophole in the moratorium that allows killing of whales for research. The beneficiary of the Japanese expedition is the meat industry not science. Unsurprisingly ,some companies have evencome up with exotic Asian curry recepies for Whale this year.Norway and Iceland do not lag behind in notorious whale hunting policies. An end to whaling is possible only if enforcable legal instruments thst go beyond the moratorium are created. The IWA has no means to enforce even exixting agreements. Conservations organisations such GREENPEACE and SEA SHEPARD regularly engage in aggressive campaigns to confront whalers in the cold Antartic waters and deflect the harpoons from their targets. The Labour victory in Australia has come as a shot in the arm for the conservationists; as the party is committed to a greater whale protection. The Kevin Rudd government needs urgently to institute an Antartic Whale Monitoring Programme.
The slaughter of endangered animals on land is chalenged at least to an extent, by intensive monitopring. Because of their isolated habitat , whales do not enjoy even such protection. The protection of sea creatures, especially whales and dolphins, must be put on a stronger footing; they need desperately to be saved from ship strikes, pollution, hunting and pressure from oil exploration activity.conservationists have been demanding for many years that the IWC be upgraded into a protection agency with teeth. A strong conservation charter for the commission will stop Japan from attempting unethically to subvert the monatorium through offers of aid-bribes in all but name- to economically weak nations, in return for a vote to restore commercial whalng. Whales have been demonished in fictional accounts and hunted mercilessely for commerce. They are intelligent, gentil, and valuable member of global bio-diversity.They need every possible protection from humankind.
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