Translation from Chinese (I think): “Not all traditions deserve to be preserved. Put an end to whaling in Japan.”
New from the world of whales:
- Another list (with pictures) of graphic and/or disturbing environmentalist press campaigns (Trendhunter)
- J2, a killer whale in Puget Sound is over 100 years old…that’s almost 4 “Kurt Cobain’s” (Seattle PI)
- It took 9.5 months and 12,849 updates to Tweet Moby Dick, now…on to Alice in Winderland (Publicdomain Twitter)
- “Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965.” (Del Mar Times)
- New paper from the NOAA shows that the Soviet Union killed more than 200,000 whales illegally between 1947 and 1973. It also says the Soviets are responsible for the extinction of eastern Pacific right whale populations. (Discovery)
- Aussie government cuts $300,000 Special Envoy on Whaling job (News.com.au)
- Scientists use both ancient and modern methods to determine that in the past there were more fish and whales than there are now (Guardian)
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