New Scientist: Japanese Whaling Activities Are Not Research

categories: Hunting, Marine Life, Politics and Law, Wildlife/FreeLiving Animals

Published June 17, 2009 @ 11:08AM PT

Japan has already been widely criticised for its whaling, which is generally seen as a thinly disguised hunting operation. But with the 2009 IWC meeting looming, it is worth rehearsing the arguments against scientific whaling.

The New Scientist article's authors go on to explain just why Japanese whaling is unnecessary for research purposes. Check it out.

On a related note, have you been watching the second season of Whale Wars? I'm missing it because I no longer have cable (actually, I no longer have television service period, given that I've kept putting off getting a DTV converter box), but if you do get Animal Planet, you can tune in on Friday nights; it just started in the last week or two, I believe.

(Thanks go to Alex Felsinger for the tweet about the New Scientist article.)

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