ICELAND TO RESUME COMMERCIAL WHALING

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WDCS

 

ICELAND TO RESUME COMMERCIAL WHALING

 

In a backwards step for the conservation of whales, Iceland has announced

that it will resume commercial whaling in defiance of the international ban.

It plans to kill nine fin whales, an endangered species, and thirty minke

whales a year.

 

The hunt will be in addition to Iceland’s current whaling programme, which

it says is for scientific purposes, and which will end with the killing of

at least 30 minke whales in 2007.

 

Iceland is also clearly planning to resume international trade in whale

meat, as like Japan and Norway, its domestic market is stagnant and it

cannot even sell the minke whales that it is currently killing.

 

Commercial whaling is cruel, unnecessary and threatens the survival of whale

populations.

 

Iceland believes the world has stopped caring about whales. We need to send

a message loud and clear that we still care and that we do not support the

resumption of commercial whaling and international trade in whale products.

 

TAKE ACTION

Please send a protest e-mail to the Icelandic Government now by going to:

http://uk.wdcs.org/go/NL061019whaling

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[from Greenpeace]

 

Iceland has just announced that they will give a license to one man to

commercially hunt whales. The quota is 30 minke whales and 9 fin whales -

which are an endangered species.

 

39 whales might not sound like much, but considering the threats that these

whales face from climate change, pollution and overfishing, this is the last

thing they need.

 

The decision does not make economic sense either. Our campaigner Frode Pleym

said, " Iceland has no market for whale meat, but they do have a huge and far

more valuable market for whale watching. "

 

Tell Iceland that it makes much more sense to support whale watching, not

whaling.

 

SIGN THE ICELAND WHALES PLEDGE!

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/stop-icelandic-whaling