Attempt to create South Atlantic whale sanctuary rejected in IWC meeting

Friday, July 15th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

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International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting closed after a tense final day when relations between opposing blocs came close to collapse. Latin American nations attempted to force a vote on a proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
Good for the S.A. nations - this needs to be put to a publically exposed vote.
We - the environmentalists - will win in the end!
Jul 15th, 2011 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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“We fear that the fact of voting will probably damage the very good atmosphere we have established, and might trigger a landslide of many votes for next year which might disrupt the progress we have made,” said Japan's alternate (or deputy) commissioner Joji Morishita.

The truth of the statement is that the “good atmosphere” is only the new African nations brought in under Japan's financial wing, including Iceland. And although the Japanese officials claim they have done nothing wrong, it is merely an improper use of semantics.

The fact is that Japan has over fished its own seas and now invading other waters to deplete whales and fishing stocks to their own needs. They have no intention to listen to anyone else, and use legal jargon to justify words that are being misused.

Why else has there been a law now put in place to stop the bribes under the table?

The point is, Japanese officials will never admit wrongdoing on any level. We have seen in in the case of Toyota, the Nuclear meltdown (lying about only one reactor), the loss of human lives in Japan due to the toxic air and water levels by their own incinerators and the bribing of officials. It even goes into the official records regarding the sustainablility of mike whales.

I don't trust them for a minute or a second. Especially when I read in their own newspapers how they laugh at the Western world for being so stupid as to accept that they are only killing whales for research.
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