Sentences with phrase «whale hunts under»

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Under normal circumstances, groups of two or three whales tend to dive in synchrony across tens of square kilometers to hunt for food.

Now, a year and a half later, data from the auspicious encounter show that minke whales have staked out a unique ecological niche that no other baleen whale can take advantage of: hunting krill under sea ice.

«Whale sharks are under threat from human impacts of hunting and ship strike and it makes it much easier to plan for conservation if we only have to deal with neighbouring countries in each region rather than localities spread across the entire Indian Ocean.»

This hunt has been allowed under an «aboriginal / subsistence whaling» exception to the commercial - hunting ban.

Gray whales have been absent from the North Atlantic since the 18th century, when they were under heavy hunting pressure.

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 hunts have gone on for years in the name of scientific research, using a loophole in the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling under the International Whaling Commwhaling under the International Whaling CommWhaling Commission.

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.

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.

For the United States, Australia and other countries opposing large - scale whaling, the choice under the commission's auspices is basically between tolerating growing hunts outside any international oversight or bringing such activities back under some control.

I had my doubts when the Oscar - winning director of «The Cove,» the searing documentary on Japan's annual slaughter of dolphins, told me he was confident that Japan's policy on whale hunts could be changed under rising pressure from within triggered in part by outside pressure — a force called gaiatsu in Japanese.

Under the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals the hunting, fishing, or deliberate killing of the great white, basking, whale, porbeagle, shortfin and longfin mako sharks, and the spiny dogfish is prohibited.

Under an objection to the global moratorium on commercial whaling and a reservation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ban on international trade in minke whales, Norway is able to legally hunt and trade minke whales.

Under an exemption to the international ban on commercial whaling, Greenland can hunt whales for local consumption.

But, unlike Japan who kills whales under the pretext of «scientific research» (a loophole in the international moratorium on whaling), Norway openly hunts for commercial purposes despite the illegality of it.

While we can all agree that Japan's scientific research program - under which it claims the prerogative to hunt 1,000 or so whales every year - is merely a front for a commercial whaling enterprise, we shouldn't have to resort to the type of vicious tactics employed by Watson and his crew to block its activities.

They are the World the World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU law banning seal products, and the decision of the International Court of Justice that Japan's Antarctic whale hunt is not exempt from the international moratorium on commercial whaling because it does not qualify for the scientific research exemption under international whaling law.