Sentences with phrase «whale hunting as»

Not exact matches

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

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.

It also defeated a US bid to remove restrictions on bobcat pelts, as well as Japanese efforts to engineer support for dolphin and whale hunts.

Though Japan abandoned its Antarctic hunt for this year, it immediately vowed to retool its research program with an eye to resuming it as early as the 2015 - 2016 season, and eventually to resume commercial whaling as well.

While pilot whales make whistles, buzzes and clicks, pods of hunting dolphins create high - pitched echolocation clicks and larger species such as sperm whales make louder, slower clicks.

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.

They hunted and slaughtered protected species of whale, such as blues and humpbacks.

NORWAY faces strong condemnation from the International Whaling Commission again this year, as its whalers continue their commercial hunt in the face of a world moratorium and in the absence of any reliable way of determining «safe» catch quotas.

Catch - limit models have been run for several of the whale populations currently being hunted — such as the western North Pacific Bryde's whales and the North Atlantic common minke whales.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

Whales also reduce their heart rate and stop the blood flow to certain parts of the body, temporarily shutting down organs such as their kidneys and liver while they hunt.

I believe another stopping point for this story is that the culture has moved beyond the acceptance of whaling as an honorable profession, to the point that I, and I assume others, was on Team Whale after witnessing a bloody hunt.

As bonnieb says, the buffalo hunt was done with respect and honor for the animal and that is as it should be and as it also is during the whale hunAs bonnieb says, the buffalo hunt was done with respect and honor for the animal and that is as it should be and as it also is during the whale hunas it should be and as it also is during the whale hunas it also is during the whale hunt.

Circles of bubbles would appear from below — the whales do this to cause fish to congregate for easier hunting — followed by breach after breach of the whales as they scooped up schools of tiny fish in their mouths.

The whales hunt using a technique known as bubble net fishing in which a group of humpbacks surround their prey by blowing bubbles and then feasting on the «surrounded» bait.

Black explained the hunt can take anywhere from an hour to a few hours, as the mother gray whale desperately tries to protect her calf, using her tail to fight back and rolling over belly - up with the calf on top.

After commercial hunting ended, some species, such as the gray whale and northern elephant seal, have rebounded in numbers; conversely, other species, such as the North Atlantic right whale, are critically endangered.

Specifically, the Chuckchee people of eastern Siberia have hunted the whales, ostensibly as part of their cultural tradition of hunting and eating whales.

Previously they were thought to be too small to be a worthwhile catch, however, as the larger whale species became depleted, the whalers began to hunt the minke as a replacement.

In South Korea, the Gray Whale Migration Site [129] was registered as the 126th national monument in 1962, [130] although illegal hunts had been taken place thereafter, [93] and there have been no recent sightings of the species in Korean waters.

In my hunt for the Northern Lights, my first stop was Iceland; a fascinating country with many beautiful natural sights such as the cascading Gullfoss Waterfalls, the rift between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, the spurting Great Geysir, Humpback, Minke and Blue whales in the bay of Reykjavik, and geothermal pools and spas such as the Blue Lagoon.

Killer whales are also found along the coast, especially when Gray whales migrate, as they hunt the whales during their migration north.

[40] A. B. Van Deinse points out that the «scrag whale», described by P. Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.

Haro Strait is where the orca whales most frequently hunt and travel in the San Juan Island as they spend the summer months foraging for salmon in Washington.

Such a wonderful sight to see as we hunted them almost to extinction on our coast, up until whaling stopped in 1965.

Despite the killer whales» pattern of more widely ranging hunts in late summer, our one day kayaking tours operate exclusively along the west side of San Juan Island as this remains the primary feeding area and offers us the best statistical chance of finding orca whales in any month.

In 89 percent of the recorded incidents, the humpbacks seemed to intervene only as the killer whales began their hunt, or when they were already engaged in a hunt.

April is the best time to experience orcas on the hunt, as they attack gray whales, sea lions and other marine mammals in the bay.

International Whaling Commission (IWC) regulations protect western gray whales from commercial and aboriginal subsistence whaling; the range states of the Russian Federation, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China, are members of the IWC (but as noted above, some limited illegal hunting may conWhaling Commission (IWC) regulations protect western gray whales from commercial and aboriginal subsistence whaling; the range states of the Russian Federation, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China, are members of the IWC (but as noted above, some limited illegal hunting may conwhaling; the range states of the Russian Federation, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China, are members of the IWC (but as noted above, some limited illegal hunting may continue).

Once the campaign is completed, there is also an extra five «challenge mode» missions for you to complete and attack the leaderboards, (which do say Steam ID next to your name instead of Gamertag,) as well as a free flight mode for testing any of the thirty or so aircraft (and to go sperm whale and dolphin hunting, seriously.)

As Game and Level Designer for this game about whales and the ocean I got the chance to do tons of research on humpback whales, their navigation, digestion, and human interference like noise pollution, whale hunting, and more.

As long as whales exist there will be sleaze out there hunting them and no amount of legislation will ever fix thaAs long as whales exist there will be sleaze out there hunting them and no amount of legislation will ever fix thaas whales exist there will be sleaze out there hunting them and no amount of legislation will ever fix that.

You control this beast as he terrorizes the waters, attack boats, eats people, hunts down some humpback whales.

I tweeted earlier today about Japan's whaling fleet, which is setting a course for the Southern Ocean in the annual hunt (this year for close to 1,000 whales) that the country characterizes as scientific research, with any questions about cuts in government support still pending.

I could understand the hunt for resources in past times if necessity dictated as such; but in these times of abundance of a wealth of alternative resources, what is the purpose of pursuing the whales resources other than pure greed and callousness?

Japan may get the right to kill whales in its coastal waters in return for scaling back its controversial annual hunts, cast as scientific research, near Antarctica.

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.

I have queried the government of Iceland and the Obama administration on the expanded whale hunt and will update this post as responses come in.

His argument is that Japan's hunts, conducted under a clause in the whaling convention that gives any country the right to hunt as many whales as it wants for scientific research, are essentially unregulated by the international commission.

The AP story story that appears in the science section of the NYT website (12/21/07) and other stories I've read state as fact that Japan is hunting whales for «scientific research.»

Japan's whaling program has struggled financially in recent years, as more Japanese consumers turn up their noses at whale meat and as environmental activists chasing whaling boats make the hunts more difficult.

As we understand, a Japanese whaling fleet is en route to the Antarctic Ocean to hunt these mammals over the next few months for what Japan has called research purposes.

The researchers want to know if the whales have enough to eat, especially as El Niño changes weather patterns and could decrease the number of salmon the whales will have to hunt.

The Obama administration has strongly criticized Iceland for resuming international trade in the meat from its expanding hunt for fin whales, the second largest whale species and one still listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Species Act.

«Whale curry» made its debut as a takeaway business in Tokyo, attracting curious customers who seldom have the meat amid an international row over hunting the giant mammals.]

The Japanese Government encourages the public to eat whale meat even though it is increasingly unpopular because it has to «save face» as it does not want to give up its right to hunt whales which would be seen as conceding defeat.

This is inhumane and the people who hunted whales felt this as well.

Environmentalists fight to sustain a moratorium on commercial whaling, but usually — as I wrote a few years ago — use arguments about rarity, rather than right and wrong, about whether they should be hunted.

The U.S. and other International Whaling Commission (IWC) member countries have tried for years to persuade Iceland to end its commercial whaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whaliWhaling Commission (IWC) member countries have tried for years to persuade Iceland to end its commercial whaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whaliwhaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whalingwhaling ban.

Despite a moratorium on commercial whaling and a ban on international trade of whale products, countries such as Iceland continue to hunt whales for their markets.