Anti-whalers rally after key vote (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Last Updated: Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 01:09 GMT 02:09 UK

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, St Kitts

European and South American governments plan to intensify efforts to prevent a return to commercial whaling.

On Sunday the International Whaling Commission (IWC) passed a declaration calling for the eventual lifting of the 20-year global moratorium.

European and South American delegates told BBC News they now plan to recruit more anti-whaling countries into the organisation.
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Conservation groups have been urging Britain, Australia, the US and their allies to recruit more allies to their cause, either by lobbying pro-whaling IWC members to switch sides or by persuading more conservation-minded countries to join up.
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"Eventually we will . I don't think that the resumption of commercial whaling is acceptable for world opinion in the 21st Century."
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Flushed by its victory on Sunday, Japan decided not to seek censure of Greenpeace over what it calls "interference in scientific research".
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5097070.stm

It's a relatively short article, worth reading for more details.

[benburch]

1. What we need is an old warship.

And a few dozen old straight-running steam torpedos.

[Nihil]

4. Good idea!

Have to check Ebay ...
:-)

[benburch]

5. This one isn't quite big enough

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Coast-Guard-Ship-MLB-44ft-boat_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ63726QQihZ002QQitemZ4650206179QQrdZ1

[Solo_in_MD]

7. Do it the french way

with limpet mines...

[Judi Lynn]

2. Hoping and praying they can be stopped. They're already planning

their next moves. Sure hope the anti-whaling group is well ahead of them.

Anti-Whaling Nations To Rally After Landmark IWC Decision

June 20, 2006 3:00 a.m. EST


Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - The BBC reports European and South American governments are planning to intensify efforts to halt a return to commercial whaling.

This fervor comes after Sunday's decision by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to pass a declaration calling for the eventual lift of the twenty- year global suspension on whaling.

Delegates from Europe and South America told the BBC they plan to get more anti-whaling countries to rally behind them.

Japan, however, says it is planning a meeting in early 2007 to charge ahead with the campaign. It will host a three-day summit, inviting all nations that support the cause of "normalizing" the IWC, (returning the organization to its original intended purpose of regulating commercial whaling).
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003965344

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Green groups call for battle against whaling bloc
By Michael Christie

FRIGATE BAY, St. Kitts and Nevis (Reuters) - Conservation groups on Monday called on governments to redouble their efforts to save endangered whales after pro-whaling nations led by Japan won a majority at an international whaling meeting for the first time in more than 20 years.

The pro-whaling nations at the International Whaling Commission managed to push through a statement declaring a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling unnecessary and blaming whales for depleting fish stocks.

While largely symbolic, the declaration adopted at the commission's June 16-20 meeting in the Caribbean island state of St. Kitts and Nevis was a show of strength by the whaling bloc after it had spent more than two decades trying to find the muscle to challenge the ban.

Environmental activists, who were criticized in the declaration, said it should serve as a catalyst to stir U.S. public opinion, in particular, and lead to a counteroffensive by anti-whaling nations at the next IWC meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, next year.

"For those governments that have failed to wake up and smell the coffee, this is the final wake-up call," said Greenpeace International spokesman Mike Townsley.

The Earth's largest creatures were driven to the edge of extinction by commercial whaling before the ban.
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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=901892006

[and-justice-for-all]

3. This needs to be ILLEGAL....

and a felony with up to 10 years in prison.

Too bad whales dont attack the whaling ships, that would rock.

Whaling is UNNECASSARY and serves no purpose. Its barbaric, cruel and NEEDS TO BE BANNED!! The economic stress by ending whaling would be...NONE!

STOP BUTCHERING THE PLANET AND THINGS THAT WHERE HERE BE US YOU SLIMMY PUKES!!

[xchrom]

6. no whaling period.