The location: Iceland.Iceland and Japan are the main culprits in whale huntings. After my generation and the next, the following generations may not get to see any more whales in ocean. This is sad as it's not owing to self extinction through death but due to over doing the huntings. Demand for such whale meat has dropped but the whale hunting industry is still being sustained.
Greenpeace has been organising protest over the whale hunting stating that there in no scientific, economic or environmental justification for it. (source: Greenpeace)
Various protests were held/initiated on whale huntings:-
* Help Save the Whales, Britain Urges More Nations - Environment News Service
* New Zealand colluding with Japan to illegally slaughter whales - CDNN, New Zealand
Japan has even tried to call for a special meeting amongst members of an international whaling group to help lift a global moratorium on hunting of whales, but several countries opposed to the practice may boycott the assembly. (source: Reuters News via Alaska Report)
4 comments:
Totally ghastly! I find it very disturbing why mankind is eating up everything and destroying everything in sight. The freakish weather experienced in Singapore recently is probably a result of that:
http://coolinsights.blogspot.com/2007/02/cold-cold-heart.html
I hope that when my son grows up, he can stil enjoy some of these wonders of nature, and see real wild animals instead of computer generated imageries!
Plants and animals are being hastened to extinction by direct or indirect human's exploits. Our next next next generation might only see the pix of 'Tiger' in their textbooks.
Besides stop buying products made from endangered animals or plants, wat we can do is probably do our part to increase the public awareness, like wat cool insider said, promote it thru 'word of mouth' OR 'post more entries like this! =)
Those pictures are disturbing to say the least.
Not true. We have 50.000 whales of all kinds in a 200 mile radius around Iceland. The whales are also eating away a lot of our fish so hedging away a little of them cannot be so bad. You and Greenpeace should really do some research before jumping on the bullshit bandwagon.
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