By Simon Leufstedt, published on March 1st, 2008
Well, that’s a maybe. The Australian government is hoping that a new proposal from them will be able to cover up a loophole that let’s Japan conduct whaling for “scientific reasons”.
The Australian environmental minister Peter Garett said today that Australia will present their proposal next week in London during an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting.
If Australia’s proposal gets accepted whaling for “scientific reasons” must be conducted according to the commission’s rules.
But this will not be an end to whaling. Several countries like Norway, Iceland and Greenland will still continue to brutally slaughter whales for “commercial” and “cultural” purposes.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
At least we are making some progresses
March 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
it’s an issue that is not going to go away fast I think, we have to keep the issue in the news so it get’s lots of attention,
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