Sentences with phrase «of whales killed»

Last year Sea Shepherd's harassment of the Japanese whaling fleet halved the number of whales killed.

The fact of the matter is that Japan's whaling activities are in all likelihood done in violation of the international ban against whaling (the scientific objection being pretty much ludicrous...); there's more and more evidence that cetaceans should probably be granted non-human person status, making killing them doubly wrong; and debate about whether Sea Shepherd's actions (which have proven quite effective in cutting the number of whales killed) are or are not permissible and are or are not truly in the spirit of non-violence which Watson and Sea Shepherd have publicly espoused will no doubt go on.

Yet, in its early attempts to regulate whaling, the IWC did nothing more than sanction whaling, even when the numbers of whales killed were clearly jeopardizing populations.

The stated reasons for initiating the Small Working Group process were to diminish acrimony within the IWC and to reduce the number of whales killed each year.

The number of whales killed by whalers has doubled since the 1990s, with so - called scientific whaling claiming roughly 1000 annually, and perhaps 600 more captured by scofflaw nations.

Knowing the biota food source relationship to ice and what whales fed on what biota, the researchers were able to take the position of the whale kills from the admiralty records and map the decadal long position of the southern ice coverage.

The study examined the effectiveness of Japanese and Norwegian explosive harpoons «in order to improve the method of whale killing.»

Not exact matches

«It's really designed to prevent whales from coming in and either shifting the odds of something occurring or making a huge killing,» Phillips tells CNBC.

However, when you consider that the Deep Horizon spill cost 42 Billion US to clean up and they only recovered 3 % of the oil while 250 million of birds, thousands of mammals, unknown millions of fish, and countless numbers of mammals, whales, turtles shellfish, and other marine life were killed.

Like the native tribe in Washington that got a permit to kill a Grey Whale so they could take a couple of tiny bites from it, when all they are used to eating is KFC.

Killing whales for commercial purposes had driven Australian whale populations, especially those of sperm and humpback whales, frighteningly close to the edge of extinction.

With our country's pride burning bright thanks to our efforts on behalf of whales, and the International Court of Justice's decision, it's an appropriate moment to reflect on how hard our government fought to stop those killing boats — and what needs to happen in our community for the live export ships to stop, too.

It was 20 November 1978, and the last whale had just been killed by an Australian - based whaling company off the WA coast, after two centuries of slaughter and the deaths of tens of thousands of animals.

Known as the «right» kind of whales for hunting, the last North Pacific right whale in Canadian waters was seen (and killed) by whalers in 1951.

Eubalaena glacialis, the North Atlantic right whale — so - called by 18th century whalers because it was easy to kill and rich in valuable blubber — is one of three right whale species.

The International Whaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, but it allowed the killing of some whales for scientific reWhaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, but it allowed the killing of some whales for scientific rewhaling in 1986, but it allowed the killing of some whales for scientific research.

«All of the whales sighted in the last 100 years were killed.

Conservationists have condemned Norway's decision to increase the number of minke whales it can kill by 45 per cent, describing the move as unjustified and «political posturing».

Between 2008 and 2009, the number of minke whales killed by Japan in Antarctica jumped from 551 to 679, while Iceland raised its quota from 40 to 200.

It is not known, for example, whether transients are content to rip blubber off whales for supper or whether they frequently succeed in making kills of adult whales.

«And that it's okay for Japan to propose a new plan which involves killing whales as long as it takes account of the reasoning and conclusions set by the ICJ at this time.»

In addition, a global theory of killer whale predation depends on educated — and far - flung — guesses of how many marine mammals may have been killed by orcas over a set period of time.

Less than 2 years after the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands ruled that Japan must stop killing whales, Japan has announced that it will relaunch its program to hunt minke whales in the Antarctic, BBC reports.

But they know far less about blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean, where ships strike and kill some of the largest animals on Earth.

They are called «right whales» because whalers thought the whales were the «right» ones to hunt, as they float when killed and often swim within sight of the shore.

Anti-whaling activists said on Monday they had captured images of Japanese ships killing protected whales inside an internationally recognized whale sanctuary, sparking criticism of the Australian government's handling of the issue.

The Gilbert Islands residents who provided the original gift of dried meat reported that it came from one of seven whales they had driven onto the beach and killed.

«Even accepting our results that the current level of ship strikes is not going to cause overall population declines, there is still going to be ongoing concern that we don't want these whales killed by ships,» Branch said.

The scientists have not yet been able to quantify the number of whales lethally wounded or killed outright by such hits.

Friedlaender says his research casts doubt on Japan's scientific whaling program, which has purported to study minke feeding biology and has killed between 240 and 860 of the animals every year since 1988.

The 100 - page draft plan released today addresses the court's findings one by one and explains why collecting accurate data on the ages of minke whales requires killing them.

Speed limits on ships have been of some help in saving the North Atlantic right whales from being killed in collisions, suggest studies by the US government and independent researchers — and environmental groups are suing to expand the areas where protection measures are in force.

Samples from the dead whale (pdf) will ultimately tell what killed this denizen of the deep.

In 1969, a male sperm whale was killed off the coast of South Africa after surfacing from a dive lasting 117 minutes.

Whale is living comfortably and quietly in Hollywood, having recently suffered a stroke that has killed the part of his brain that controls emotions, thoughts, memories, and smells.

We can pretty much credit the downfall of Sea World to Gabriela Cowperthwaite's «Blackfish,» which tells the story of Tilikum, a killer whale living in captivity that killed its trainer in 2010.

One of the year's most controversial documentaries tells the story of Tilikum, a killer whale who killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010; that wasn't the first human death in which he was involved.

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Ósmy dzien tygodnia / Der achte Wochentag (The Eighth Day of the Week, Aleksander Ford, 1958) Kreivi (The Count, Peter Von Bagh, 1971) Grossmejster (Sergej Mikaėljan, 1973) The Island (Michael Ritchie, 1980) Kujira (Whale, Ofuji Noburo, 1952) Châtiment [French version of The Despoiler], Reginald Barker, 1915/7) Kinodokumenty o zverstvach nemecko - fašistskich zachvatčikov (Atrocities by the German Fascist Aggressors, Vladimir Bol» šincov, 1945/6) Fortress (Arch Nicholson, 1985) Le notti dei Teddy Boys (Leopoldo Savona, 1959) Penn & Teller Get Killed (Arthur Penn, 1989) Vozvraščenie Vasilija Bortnikova (The Return of Vasili Bortnikov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1953) Les Animaux Pendant la Guerre (DP: Robert Baudouin, Charles Blanc, 1913) Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (Fred F. Sears, 1953) Konjiki Yasha (The Golden Demon, Shima Koji, 1954) Falbalas (Jacques Becker, 1945) Stürme der Leidenschaft (Storms of Passion, Robert Siodmak, 1932) Zvanyj užin (Dinner Party, Fridrich Ėrmler, 1953) Al Capone (Richard Wilson, 1959) Le témoin (The Witness, Jean - Pierre Mocky, 1978) Chad Hanna (Henry King, 1940) Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... (What Scoundrels Men Are!

The next day they kill two more, and the boat is such a hive of grisly industry that even Sumner has to help butcher and store the whales.

You can truly kill by «kindness» and I have posted many a blog post re: seeing Danes and other dogs as just heads and stick legs on a whale of a body due to obesity.

The moment I decided to cover the no - kill movement I knew I'd bitten off a whale of a topic.

Each year Japan kills about 400 minke whales, as well as a smaller number of Bryde's whales, sei whales and sperm whales, in the name of research.

Orcas are actually part of the dolphin family and have been given the name «Killer Whale» because they have been known to kill whales.

She added that humpback whales will sometimes charge over to the site of the kill and blow their trumpets, trying to get the killer whales to back off.

Nancy Black, a marine biologist with Monterey Bay Whale Watch who has been studying these whales for decades, called the frequency of the pod's killings «remarkable» and «unprecedented.»

[20] In his 1835 history of Nantucket Island, Obed Macy wrote that in the early pre-1672 colony a whale of the kind called «scragg» entered the harbor and was pursued and killed by the settlers.

Over the last decade, dozens of collisions have seriously injured or killed whales off the California coast, and scientists think the population of about 2,500 blue whales that migrates along the West Coast each year may be especially at risk from ship strikes.

And because of present conditions, some fear a repeat of 2007, when krill appeared in the shipping lanes for weeks, and at least four blue whales were struck and killed in the channel.

«Just because J.J. is famous and has a transmitter on her back, there is no law to prevent a whaler from putting a harpoon into her and killing her,» said whale expert David Phillips of the San Francisco - based Earth Island Institute, which opposes whaling except in «subsistence» bases involving native peoples.