Sentences with phrase «kill endangered whales»

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In the latest study, scientists analyzed an earplug from an endangered blue whale killed by a ship near California.

Personally I am against commercial whaling but if you want an impartial view I think the taking of whales should not be allowed under the scientific research provision; instead the ability to take for commercial purposes certain whale species that are doing ok (e.g., minke) should be rediscussed within the IWC (again I am not in favor of this but it would better then killing for scientific research whale species that are endangered [eg, fin, sei whales].

Iceland killed 273 endangered fin whales in the last two years.

They are continue to kill a sea mammal that does not belong to their country, is endangered, they do it under the umbrella of «scientific research» when there are non-lethal ways to conduct the same research and whale meat is in huge over-supply in Japan yet they continue to hunt more whales.

Some marine conservation groups last Friday decried Iceland's final tally of more than 150 whales killed in this year's harvest, including 94 fin whales — the second largest whale and one that is still on some lists of endangered species.

This year it plans to kill 700 whales: 440 minke whales in Antarctic waters and 260 in the North Pacific — 10 sperm whales, 50 Bryde's whales, 150 minke and 50 sei whales, a species classified as endangered by the World Conservation Union.

«Killing for Commerce,» released by the Environmental Investigation Agency, in conjunction with Humane Society International and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the website Yahoo! Japan facilitates the sale of meat and other products of endangered whale in Japan.

In subsequent years the annual number of endangered fin whales killed by Icelandic fleets for whale - meat exports to Japan had risen from seven to 148.

More on Japan: Japan Will Ignore Ban on Bluefin Tuna, Says The Fish Isn't That Endangered Japan Accused of Bribing Nations to be Pro-Whaling Japan Kills Sea Shepherd Anti Whaling Ship.

The IWC meeting in Morocco may have seen the failure of plans to compromise on commercial whaling, to bring Japan and other international law objectors back into the fold, but there is some more interesting news coming from Agadir: More whales are being killed by pollution, getting caught in nets and other threats than by commercial whaling; and, Russian oil exploration in the Pacific is threatening critically endangered grey whales.