Sentences with phrase «whale hunt»

In other words, to use terminology common to the industry right now, they're a sort of whale hunting scheme.

So far, blue whales have not returned to the menus of countries seeking to expand whale hunting.

The historic low population counts when we finally put together an international agreement to ban whale hunting?

The seals are disappearing, and the ice is too thin to support whale hunting, and the polar bears are eating what's left of the whales.

The disagreement has its roots in a decision by Iceland to resume commercial whale hunting in 2006.

There's the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act (which has its 40th anniversary on Tuesday), treaties and trade pacts aimed at conserving biological diversity, the moratorium on whale hunts.

Humpback whales have been witnessed foiling killer whale hunts from Antarctica to the North Pacific.

Iceland's fin whale hunt revolves around Kristján Loftsson, a multi-millionaire and the Executive Director of Hvalur hf.

On Earth Day, the leadership of the International Whaling Commission issued a long - discussed proposal for a «peace plan» aimed at reining in expanding whale hunts by Japan, Norway and Iceland that have, in various ways, skirted the longstanding moratorium on commercial whaling.

Other concessions during the meeting included Japan's agreement not to request a commercial whale hunt on its coast, the withdrawal of a resolution by the U.S. and New Zealand for member countries to work more cooperatively, and an agreement by the UK to hold discussions between meetings instead of establishing a formal working group to address whale killing methods and welfare.

Whale hunting goes back millennia, but by the 18th century, new maritime technology made the practice truly intensive.

Since the Makah have been allowed to continue gray whale hunting for its importance to their native culture, the environmentalists are calling for no exceptions to the hunting ban.

Read HSI's statement on votes conducted at the International Whaling Commission meeting rejecting the South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal, and approving a humpback whale hunt for St. Vincent and the Grenadine.

Humpback whale rescue teams have been witnessed foiling killer whale hunts from Antarctica to the North Pacific.

Aboriginal hunts are granted local dispensations, and, to the justified outrage of many, Japan conducts an annual whale hunt under the guise of «scientific research.»

After a 70 - year ban on gray whale hunting, the Makah took their first whale in May of 1999.

The pilot whale hunt in the Faroes is, by its very nature, a dramatic and bloody sight.

I am personally against whale hunting as I am an avid scuba diver & to get the once in a lifetime chance to see one of these magnificent creatures in the wild, would be a very deep & religous experience.

As more whale species recover after centuries of slaughter and the rarity question fades, what arguments against whale hunting will hold up?

Data from the following encounter was used as evidence when the International Court of Justice ordered a halt to Antarctic whale hunting this past March.

If the problem with whale hunting is described by Roger Payne's quote then I don't really see what the problem is.

The seemingly unbridgeable divide over whale hunting that was on display earlier this week at the 62nd meeting of the International Whaling Commission had as much to do with clashing cultures as international politics or other factors.

These exports are worth an estimated US$ 50 million and Iceland's escalating whale hunts are clear and wilful abuses of the IWC's moratorium as well as the ban on international commercial trade in whale products imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Paul Watson, the charismatic and controversial leader of the Sea Shepherd campaign against Japanese whale hunts, has offered a potent rebuttal tonight to allegations that he ordered the scuttling of the Ady Gil, a million - dollar anti-whaling patrol boat damaged after a collision with a Japanese ship in the southern ocean early this year.

This movement is catching on in Japan, where 100,000 people every summer now go whale watching, feeding a growing skepticism about whale hunting.

WWF lobbies to bring «scientific» (hunting whales for research) and commercial whale hunts under the strict control of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

The government of Norway announced on April 1st, perhaps hoping the unseemly news would be lost amid the fictitious headlines of the day, that the country's whale hunting quota would be raised to the highest level in 25 years: 1286 whales can be killed this season.

The MPAA rated Free Willy 3: The Rescue PG for thematic elements involving whale hunting and for brief mild language.

Not long after the International Court of Justice declared that Japan's whale hunt around Antarctica was not «scientific» and that it should stop, the country has decided to reduce the scale of its whaling int he Pacific.

This is a wonderful place known for its ship building, whale hunting tradition and fine eateries.

At a hamlet on the southern end of Ellesmere called Grise Fiord, whose Inuit name means «the place that never thaws out,» the Inuit have watched the sea ice that supports their traditional seal, polar bear and whale hunting decrease every year.

The team made three trips to sperm - whale hunting grounds 600 miles south of Tokyo.

«The present study is the first on apes to show by means of networking analysis that habits travel along paths of close relationships,» he says, adding that a similar idea was shown not long ago for humpback whale hunting techniques.

While this activity involved witnessing whale hunting, it generated a huge amount of both data and specimens, and helped contribute to the eventual ban on commercial whaling.

I live in the Pacific Northwest where over the years there have been many news items about the Native Americans wanting, and having, their treaty rights to whale hunting restored to them.

Transient killer whales hunt marine mammals; and this time of year gray whale mothers with their new calves are returning from Baja California and are heading north to Alaska for the summer.

Beautiful town with history rooted in Norwegian whale hunting and British occupation during the Second World War.

SuperCell's Clash of Clans, which uses the tried and true whale hunting tactic of including expedition items in a shop sharply priced at $ 1 to $ 100.

Here's a short second segment of the interview I conducted last week with Paul Watson, the leader of the Sea Shepherd campaign that cut short Japan's Southern Ocean whale hunt this year.

The disclosure in California comes as the International Whaling Commission considers a compromise that would end the longstanding moratorium on commercial whaling in return for Japan and other whaling countries reducing * their independent whale hunts.

On his Facebook page, Carl Safina, the author and ocean campaigner, put up a link to the Times article on the sushi find and said: «This is why whale hunting must be crushed once and for all — not expanded.»

I am Australian and in Australia (and in NZ as well) Japan's whale hunt dominates the news every whale - hunting season and particulary this year as humpbacks have been added to the «menu».

At the same time, the media can not afford to deploy boats to chronicle whale hunts, and governments opposed to whale kills in the global commons of the Southern Ocean aren't doing much to track or resist such activities.

Currently, Japan is the only other country to engage in whale hunting through exploiting the loophole.

Modern commercial whaling and many aboriginal whale hunts of great whales use harpoons fired from the bow of a whaling vessel (often a fishing boat).

Iceland's annual minke whale hunt is currently underway.

And while the people of Barrow share communally in the bounty of a successful whale hunt, the specialized monitoring equipment at the NOAA observatory uses modern technology to track the destruction of the atmospheric resource from the modern industrialization and the consequent carbon emissions.

The government of Iceland announced last week that it is calling off its controversial whale hunt, not because of political pressure, but due to the lack of demand for whale meat and other whale products.

Not merely content to allow Japan to resume its annual whale hunt sans humpbacks, Greenpeace has vowed to do whatever it deems necessary to prevent further killings - even if it means putting «ourselves between the whale and the harpoon.»