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Swimming With Humpbacks: The Journey of Life

Environment  (tags: wildlife, whales, a quarter of whale and dolphin species a, more than 10 per cent (nine species) are, SAVE WHALES!!! )

Tony
- 46 days ago - independent.co.uk
A hunting ban has restored numbers of the humpback whale but scientists warn one-fifth of all mammals could soon die out.
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Hans L. (1033)
Tuesday October 7, 2008, 3:07 am
Thank you Tony! Should we protect the whales or simply allow commercial whaling like Japan would love to see ASAP?
By the time the ban was introduced in 1966, the global humpback population was thought to have declined by 90 per cent in as little as 50 years of industrialised whaling. There are thought to be about 80,000 humpbacks alive now and even Japan, which, despite international outrage, has resumed whaling in the Arctic, has said that it will leave humpbacks alone.

Its fellow cetaceans are not so fortunate. Nearly a quarter of whale and dolphin species are threatened and, of those, more than 10 per cent (nine species) are listed as "endangered" or "critically endangered", the highest categories of threat.

Thats why i think that the best way to stop the killing is to use people power!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/stop-the-killing-boycott-Japan
 

Claudia For the Oceans (125)
Tuesday October 7, 2008, 11:15 am
I'm so angry and sad about all tragic news that i read,heard and saw the past few years.The human is who i'm mad at.Humans are the biggest destructors of the planet
 
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