Sentences with phrase «with whale hunting»

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

Mr. Revkin, please report on the ongoing situation with the whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.

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).

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.

The drive - hunting of dolphins has a long history in the Solomon Islands, particularly at the island of Malaita, according to Marc Oremus, a biologist with the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium and lead author on the study.

But the country's lethal scientific whaling effort seems poised to resume with the 2015 to 2016 Southern Ocean hunting season anyway.

For the foreseeable future, the battle over whales will continue to play out with unregulated hunts, dangerous zodiac chases, and freezers full of aging whale meat.

«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.»

If you're an oceanographer who studies marine mammals, perhaps you'd go to sea on a ship with a good pair of binoculars and hunt for whales.

But with the exception of a well - staged whale - hunting sequence and the Essex crew's first meeting with the great white whale, the movie isn't terribly exciting.

With regards to whale hunting, it doesn't give us an answer, but it forces us to ask a question we hadn't even considered before.

Philbrick's accessible narrative of the tragic 1820s whaling voyage whose central disaster was the violent encounter with a sperm whale engages readers with descriptions of Nantucket's unusual commercial, religious, and social characteristics, the class and racial aspects of Nantucket whaling, and other issues raised by the Essex's final whale 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 hunt.

In his book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, HSUS president and CEO Wayne Pacelle gets at one of the core issues challenging the humane movement: If we rid the world of inhumane economic practices — be it puppy mills, whaling, the Canadian seal hunt — what will replace them?

The fortune he continued to receive from royalties after he left the show in 1993 was invested in his passions: rescuing animals from abuse, training dogs to help people with disabilities or post-traumatic stress disorder, protecting whales from being hunted and providing vegan meals to hungry families.

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.

I'm in Belize on the hunt for whale sharks — but I'm not watching them from the boat, I'm plunging into the water to scuba dive and snorkel with the world's largest fish.

Most hunted whales are now threatened, with some great whale populations exploited to the brink of extinction.

Some Alaska Native peoples continue by tradition to hunt bowhead and beluga whales on a subsistence level, with low annual bowhead total quotas set by the International Whaling Commission in conjunction with individual village limits set by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

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.

The blue whale was too swift and powerful for the 19th century whalers to hunt, but with the arrival of harpoon cannons, they became a much sought after species for their large amounts of blubber.

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

It seems clear from the data that the humpback whales are choosing to interact with the orcas specifically to interrupt their hunts.

«They learn early because it's pretty dangerous for the killer whales to hunt a gray whale because the mother gray whale can slam them with their fluke,» Black said.

It is also possible to snorkel with pilot whales that hunt in the waters between Pantar and Alor.

The hunt leads to a whaling vessel christened Delilah with the aid of Billie Lurk, his second in command.

Now is this whale hunt based on an obsession with a «cover» of scientific research.

I'd like to add that the whalers are from highly industrialized countries whose populations have nothing to do with the «hunt» but are buying whale meat like any other fungible supermarket product.

In this case, with Japan, which believes its culture is superior to all other cultures, almost to the point of brainwashed mindcontrolled religious belief, Japan will never change its policy on «scientific» hunting of whales.

So while you guys were jamming with the humpback, over in Agadir, Morocco, the usual suspects, brought together every year for decades now, were realizing that there was no way to cut a hoped - for deal to allow some sanctioned, but controlled, whaling in place of the current hunts by three countries.

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.

Yesterday, to explore the stasis in negotiations, I had a Skype text chat about the disconnect between countries focused on whale hunting and whale protection with David Rothenberg, a friend and neighbor who is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of «Thousand Mile Song» — a book about whale communication.

With Japan's whale hunt in stormy southern seas wrapped for the season, the battle over efforts by a handful of countries to expand whale hunts has shifted to Iceland.

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.

With huge metabolic demands — and large populations before humans started hunting them — great whales are the ocean's ecosystem engineers: they eat many fish and invertebrates, are themselves prey to other predators like killer whales, and distribute nutrients through the water.

[UPDATE, 9/25: The final fin whale tally for Iceland's 2009 whale hunt is up to 125, with 1,500 tons of meat processed.

This whale population, hunted nearly to extinction generations ago, is slowly recovering, with an estimated 450 right whales dividing their time between winter calving areas off the southeastern United States and summer feeding grounds from New England north.

But in conversations with some Japanese diplomats who sought me out after reading my posts on the film, there was a clear sense that the Japanese government was trying to gauge American views on its whaling efforts, perhaps recognizing that its ongoing investment in, and aggressive defense of, whale hunts was creating a significant branding problem, at the very least.

In the 1970s I went with Australia's last whaling fleet to observe them hunting sperm whales.

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.

Humane Society International, an outspoken critic of the Japanese whale hunt, issued the following statement through its president, Kitty Block: «My heart sinks each time the Japanese fleet returns to port with these magnificent animals rendered into blocks of meat pre-packed for the super-markets.

The International Whaling Commission is the global body charged with the conservation of whales and the management of whale hunting.

With these kinds of pressures threatening the long - term viability of our oceans and their inhabitants, it is irresponsible to add even greater pressure on whales by hunting them to supply the luxury food market.

Since it resumed commercial whaling in 2002, Iceland has also declined to provide information on the welfare aspects of its hunts with the IWC.

HSI is working closely with other animal protection organizations to make this pause in Iceland's fin whale hunting a permanent one.

Finally, Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling must be managed in a way that balances the needs of indigenous people with the responsibility to ensure that the hunts are sustainable, humane and accountable to the IWC.

The region is a complex and finely balanced system, with some of the islands still recovering from industrial - scale hunting of whales, seals and penguins.

With instructions to hunt down - sorry, collect for «scientific research» - up to 1,000 whales, the Japanese sailors are setting their sights on the humpback whale for the first time in over 40 years.

Via:: Guardian Unlimited: Green ships in deadly duel with whalers (news website),:: Dot Earth: Whale Hunters Hunted (blog)

It seemed like a day to go with the whales, rather than the pols, so I hunted up these travelling humpback songs for you, finding them in the Wired story on this cetacean phenom.