Japanese study says loss of fat in whales may be result of climate change

by Amy Judd | August 26, 2008 at 01:02 pm

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Japan, the country that has killed thousands of whales in the name of research are now speaking out about their findings from the dead whales' research, which many say is just commercial whaling by another name.

Now, Japan's scientists claim their controversial whaling programme has produced a key finding. Measurements taken from more than 4,500 minke whales slaughtered since the late 1980s reveal the animals have lost significant amounts of blubber, and are getting thinner at a worrying speed. The team says its study offers the first evidence that global warming could be harming whales, because it restricts their food supplies. And they say the discovery could only have been made by killing the animals.

Crucially for the Japanese, the results have been published in a mainstream western scientific journal – a move that has dismayed campaigners, who say it could offer scientific whaling a veneer of respectability, and bolster Japan's efforts to hunt more whales.

They fear Japan could use the results to support efforts to hunt endangered humpback whales for the first time in 50 years. The study claims the recovering humpback population in the Southern Ocean could also be hurting the minkes because of "interference" between the two species as they compete for food.

Whales of course, need blubber to survive as it creates energy and gives them protection against the cold water. It could already be making it more difficult for the whales to reproduce, which is already having an effect on the population.

The findings are unpopular among nations who oppose whaling, as it could mean a shift to lift the ban against whaling being lifted.

This is not the first time that the Japanese scientific whaling programme has published results, but these are the most high-profile findings so far. In 2005, Australian scientists analysed the 55 scientific papers produced by the programme and said only a handful were relevant and required the whales to have been killed. The others included descriptions of bizarre experiments to cross-fertilise whales with sheep and cows.

The new study analysed measurements taken from 4,689 adult whales killed by the Japanese whaling fleet between 1988 and 2005. It found that blubber thickness and overall fat weight had decreased by 9% over the period, which it called a 'substantial decline". Girth of the animals was down 4%. The study says: "This is the first time a long-term decline in energy storage in minke whales has been demonstrated."

The question is whether the benefits of the data collected from these dead whales outweighs the lives lost of the thousands of whales used in this study.

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eastvanray

at 13:46 on August 26th, 2008

Or maybe the whales are just getting in shape because they are tired of being the brunt of insults like "She is fat as a whale." I blame the media!

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at 14:08 on August 26th, 2008

amyjudd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

OMG! "Scientific" whaling has actually produced a scientific finding? What were the odds?

And, ironically, it's a finding that should do the whaling industry out of a job. We first started to hunt whales for their blubber, to make oil. The market for that died-out after we struck Texas-tea, but this finding should put the last nail in the coffin for the whaling business. Less blubber means less reason to hunt - surely. Unless they're hunting for the meat? Surely not!

Belligerent sarcasm aside, this is hardly a surprising finding, possibly analogous to the average size of North Sea cod shrinking, as the larger cod were fished out of the gene pool.

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at 19:04 on August 26th, 2008

amyjudd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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at 02:20 on August 27th, 2008

amyjudd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Maybe they lost the fat because they have been chased around the Globe by Walling Ships.

rpshen

at 06:49 on August 27th, 2008

poor creatures.

Sputnic

at 08:47 on August 27th, 2008

Good stuff. We all know statistics can be manipulated. A few obvious questions; do whales adopt? Other large mammals do (elephants) less adults to feed young = smaller young. Most obvious, was time of year taken into account? What happens to whale blubber when the whale dies at sea ? Not only humans lose weight when stressed either, caged animals in zoos have been observed exhibiting symptoms of stress and other mental illness. Shipping noise has been shown to interfere with dolphins sonar. If whales sonar is similarly interfered with then they will be less able to tell others where food is, or perhaps even warn others that food supply is exhausted

II - Japan's whaling ship Nisshin Maru arrives back in Japan (not verified)

at 14:31 on May 11th, 2009

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II - Japan's whaling ship Nisshin Maru arrives back in Japan The Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru docks in Shimonoseki,
Japan, having just returned from its last so-called "scientific"
whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. It is now
one year since Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki first
exposed the embezzlement of whale meat from the fleet. They are still
on trial and facing up to ten years in prison, yet nothing has been
done to address the scandal and the real criminals behind the
embezzlement. Greenpeace is calling for all charges against Sato and
Suzuki to be dropped, and for an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling_lies_coveru...

Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.

www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Whaling
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Bem feito, Japão, escândalo mundial!

QUE VERGONHA!
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Mosh4 disse:

Gostaram da recepção?
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Japanes whaling ship Nisshin Maru arrives back in Japan (not verified)

at 14:35 on May 11th, 2009

Japanes whaling ship Nisshin Maru arrives back in Japan Workers unload boxes from the Nisshin Maru to a courier van. The ship is docked in Shimonoseki, Japan, having just returned from its last so-called "scientific" whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. One year ago Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki first exposed the embezzlement of whale meat from the fleet by intercepting a box similar to these, and handing it in to the Japanese Public Prosecutor as evidence. Sato and Suzuki are still on trial and facing up to ten years in prison, yet nothing has been done to address the scandal and the real criminals behind the embezzlement. Greenpeace
is calling for all charges against Sato and Suzuki to be dropped, and
for an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling_lies_coveru...

Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.

www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Whaling
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Que vergonha, Japão!
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greenpeace-staff-junichi-sato 021309-T2-5- Greenpeace staff Junichi Sato(L)and Toru Suzuki (R), and their lead counsel Yuichi Kaido attend a press briefing following their first pre-trial arrangement hearing at Aomori District Court in Aomori, northern Japan February 13, 2009. Sato and Suzuki are being prosecuted after their attempt to expose a major corruption scandal surrounding the whaling programme. © Noboru Hashimoto

Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling_lies_coveru...

Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.

www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Whaling
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It's sad that a great modern nation like Japan uses such ham fisted tactics to suppress legitimate dissent. Kudos to the brave members of Greenpeace Japan that place themselves at risk.
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Mosh4 disse:

Parabéns ao Greenpeace!

FORA: JAPÃO E A SUA CORRUPÇÃO...
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Mosh4 disse:

Lugar de ladrão é na cadeia!

É HORA DE JULGAR OS CORRUPTOS DO JAPÃO...

BALEAÇÃO COMERCIAL NO JAPÃO...

QUE VERGONHA!
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at 14:41 on May 11th, 2009

greenpeace-activists-locked-in Greenpeace activists locked in handcuffs with a picture of a whale, protested outside the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. The protesters expessed concerns over the illegal whaling by the Japanese in the Southern Ocean. © Paul Hilton/ Greenpeace

Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling_lies_coveru...

Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.

www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209

Whaling
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at 14:43 on May 11th, 2009

whaleboatblog Dear Friends,

Photo: Beautifully restored Icelandic fishing boats, now used for whale watching. The people of Iceland have chosen a new Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir. A well known opponent Iceland's whaling whaling, before the election, Ms Sigurdardottir's interim government made clear its opposition to Iceland’s whaling legacy.

In the coming month, while the Prime Minister and her colleagues are busy creating a new government and working to regenerate the nation’s economy, Iceland has a real chance to end decades of damaging policy, by becoming a world leader in whale conservation.

Click here to write to Iceland's Prime Minister now.

Please ask Ms Sigurdardottir to make the best of this important opportunity: by cancelling Iceland's five year commercial whaling quota, and ensuring that Iceland's representative at this year’s International Whaling Commission meeting votes for whale conservation, firmly establishing Iceland as an environmental model for other nations to follow.

All of us,
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Welcome to Greenpeace International
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Esperança!
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Vamos assinar a petição!
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The whale hunt continues Posted by Irene onboard the Esperan (not verified)

at 14:51 on May 11th, 2009

The whale hunt continues Posted by Irene onboard the Esperanza Whaling in the Southern Ocean
Two years ago: what they do not
want you and me to see.
©Greenpeace/Kate Davison
The Oceanic Viking reports that at least five whales have been killed in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. I am sad, angry and frustrated.

We chased the factory ship the Nisshin Maru over a distance of 4,300 nautical miles. During that time no whales were killed. When we had to leave the Australian surveillance vessel Oceanic Viking had arrived. If the whaling fleet have "only" killed five whales so far, it means that the whaling fleet didn't resume whaling immediately, but I guess they got desperate to try and fill their quota. It is very difficult to find anything positive to say today.

Media coverage and public discussion on the whaling issue has reached unprecedented levels in Japan, and Prime Minister Fukuda has been forced to discuss the whaling issue in Parliament.

Japanese taxpayers must be wondering why they are funding this scandalous fake research operation which produces no real science, whale meat that very few wants to eat, and brings their country into international disrepute.

The Japanese government wants to "normalise" the International Whaling Commission, and overthrow the moratorium on commercial whaling. Bloody pictures of whales being killed in the Southern Ocean do not serve this purpose.
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Therefore I post one from 2006 - this is what the Japanese government's science looks like.
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Scumbags
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Extreme mercury levels revealed in whalemeat (not verified)

at 14:59 on May 11th, 2009

Extreme mercury levels revealed in whalemeat

* 10:32 06 June 2002 by Andy Coghlan

www.newscientist.com/article/dn2362-extreme-mercury-level...

Tests on whalemeat on sale in Japan have revealed astonishing levels of mercury. While it has long been known that the animals accumulate heavy metals such as mercury in their tissues, the levels discovered have surprised even the experts.

Two of the 26 liver samples examined contained over 1970 micrograms of mercury per gram of liver. That is nearly 5000 times the Japanese government's limit for mercury contamination, 0.4 micrograms per gram.

At these concentrations, a 60-kilogram adult eating just 0.15 grams of liver would exceed the weekly mercury intake considered safe by the World Health Organization, say Tetsuya Endo, Koichi Haraguchi and Masakatsu Sakata at the University of Hokkaido, who carried out the research. "Acute intoxication could result from a single ingestion," they warn in a draft paper accepted for publication in The Science of the Total Environment.

The researchers call on the government to impose tighter regulations on the consumption of whale organs. In particular, they warn that pregnant women risk poisoning their unborn children. In the 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of children around Japan's Minamata Bay were born with horrific birth defects after their mothers ate seafood contaminated with mercury compounds, which had been poured raw into the bay since the 1930s. Thousands more suffered brain damage.
Single mouthful

Even veteran researchers from the Minamata saga were shocked by the new figures. "Hirokatsu Akagi, a director of the National Institute for Minamata Disease, was very surprised," says Endo. "He'd never seen levels above 20 micrograms per gram."

On average, concentrations of mercury in whale and dolphin livers were 370 micrograms per gram, 900 times the government limit. Average levels in kidneys and lungs were also high, about 100 times the limit. None of the samples was below the limit.

In work not yet published, Endo's team has shown that rats suffered acute kidney poisoning after a single mouthful of the most highly contaminated liver. While levels were lower in muscle, Endo told New Scientist that on average it still contained 2.5 to 25 times the limit.

The samples came from small-toothed whales and dolphins, catches of which are not restricted by the International Whaling Commission, the international body that regulates whaling. Mercury becomes concentrated in their internal organs when they eat contaminated fish and squid.

Japan continues to campaign vigorously to be allowed to resume full-scale whaling of larger species. But an IWC meeting in May 2002 ended in deadlock.

If you would like to reuse any content from New Scientist, either in print or online, please contact the syndication department first for permission. New Scientist does not own rights to photos, but there are a variety of licensing options available for use of articles and graphics we own the copyright to.

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www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/warofthewhales/pip/zzz1v /

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The War of the Whales
26 November 2007

Monday 26 November 2007 21:00-21:30 (Radio 4 FM)

Roz Kidman Cox looks at the continuing conflict over the pursuit of whales since the International Whaling Commission voted for a moratorium on commercial hunting in 1982.

Despite the 25-year ban, Japan continues to kill thousands of whales a year in the name of science while environmentalists complain that this is simply commercial whaling in a different guise. But does this apparent conflict actually suit both sides?
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Low carbon whale meat

High North News 04.03.2008
Eating whale meat is far better for the climate than eating other types of meat. That’s the conclusion of a new, groundbreaking study.

“People can eat whale meat with a good conscience,” says Rune Frovik of the High North Alliance, which has conducted the study.

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MIRIAM GODET    disse: WARNING: Do not eat whale meat

www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e081130.html

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FAROE ISLANDS (30 Nov 2008) — Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic - as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves.

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Source: "Marine Hunters: Whaling and Sealing in the North Atlantic," published by the High North Alliance, 1997.

www.highnorth.no/Library/Publications/M-hunte r/a-th-to.htm

A people's diet, however, is not only about health. Dave Ramsden, Canadian North West Territories' deputy minister of health, says that, «If we start a stampede away from eating beluga or caribou we will have lost the people's culture.»50
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Scandal: Japan's whalers caught redhanded (not verified)

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Scandal: Japan's whalers caught redhanded Greenpeace Japan's Junichi Sato displaying the stolen whale meat to the media. ©Greenpeace/Naomi Toyoda

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It's been a busy few days for the Defending Whales Team in Tokyo, Japan:

"Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan's government-backed, sham scientific whaling operation."

Read more here »
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Whaling and dealing: Tell the US to stop negotiating at the (not verified)

at 15:04 on May 11th, 2009

Whaling and dealing: Tell the US to stop negotiating at the expense of whales - President Obama wants to stop Southern Ocean Whaling - now is your chance! We have received worrying rumours of a political deal that could result in increased whaling off the coast of Japan - threatening already endangered whales. We need your your help in ensuring that this deal is killed off - and not the whales.
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Ending Japan's Southern Ocean Whaling

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"FAILED" (not verified)

at 15:09 on May 11th, 2009

Activists from Greenpeace Japan meet the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru with a banner saying "FAILED" as it arrives in Tokyo, Japan to unload whale meat for sale. o1504082-15th April 2008 - TOKYO, JAPAN
Activists from Greenpeace Japan meet the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru with a banner saying "FAILED" as it arrives in Tokyo, Japan to unload whale meat for sale. The ship failed to meet its quota of 935 whales by nearly half, in part because the Greenpeace ship Esperanza stopped the entire whaling operation for 15 days as it chased the Nisshin Maru across the Southern Ocean, over a distance of 4300 miles.
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Demonstration_Anti_Japan_Whale_Vessel_at_Surabay BOYCOTT JAP (not verified)

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A Great Victory for the Whales in Indonesia (not verified)

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A Great Victory for the Whales in Indonesia Japanese Whalers Lie to Indonesian Officials
www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-090114-1.html

A Great Victory for the Whales in Indonesia
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GREENPEACE TRIES TO PREVENT JAPANESE WHALING FLEET FROM REFU (not verified)

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GREENPEACE TRIES TO PREVENT JAPANESE WHALING FLEET FROM REFUELLI           SOUTHERN OCEAN ESPERANZA 22 JANUARY 2008 - A Greenpeace inflatable boat tries to prevent Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship Nisshin Maru from refuelling from the supply vessel Oriental Bluebird in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The Panama-registered Oriental Bluebird is illegally operating as part of the whaling fleet in Antarctic waters. Greenpeace has successfully prevented the Japanese whaling fleet from killing whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary for eleven days so far.
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Oi! Sou administrador de um grupo chamado Ships World-Wide e nós adoraríamos ter isto adicionado ao grupo!

ALSO A INVITE TO THE TWO GROUPS
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Oi! Sou administrador de um grupo chamado Ships. UK. & Elsewhere. e nós adoraríamos ter isto adicionado ao grupo!
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MIRIAM GODET disse:

Todos malditos: MATADORES E PERSEGUIDORES DAS BALEIAS = WHALING
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MIRIAM GODET: APENAS INSIRA SEU E-MAIL E FAÇA UMA GRANDE AÇÃO - MASSACRE DAS BALEIAS -www.beppegrillo.it/iniziative/whalesmassacre/
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MIRIAM GODET disse:

"O homem recebeu o poder de conquistar o mundo inteiro e dominá-lo. Na terra, mar e ar, e foi conclamado a fazê-lo; esta foi sua tarefa.

Como esta 'conquista do mundo' deveria ser feita, e qual o propósito e verdadeiro significado disso?

Seria bom para nós darmos atenção ao conselho do Rei Shelomô, o mais sábio de todos os homens, quando escreveu ao final do Livro de Cohêlet: 'Em última análise, tudo se sabe; teme a Deus, e observa Seus mandamentos; pois este é todo o propósito do homem.'

Nas palavras de nossos Sábios, 'Eu fui criado com o único propósito de servir ao meu Criador."...
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Oi! Sou administrador de um grupo chamado La Mar de Flickr e nós adoraríamos ter isto adicionado ao grupo!
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dani.Co disse:

Seen in La Mar de Flickr
Hey, ......what a good photographer here!!
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Uwe Paschen

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Japan whalers out of Australia-claimed area (not verified)

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Japan whalers out of Australia-claimed area photo: AP / David Guttenfelde
Protests or not, Japan keeps eating whale
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Click photo to enlargeJapanese businessmen enjoy their whale meat lunches at a whale meat eatery in Tokyo in this photo taken on May 5, 2007. As diners sit down to their whale meat lunches in Tokyo
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Japan whalers out of Australia-claimed area
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Ontleden van 'Hvalfangst' (not verified)

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bloederige zaak
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Ontleden van 'Hvalfangst' (not verified)

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bloederige zaak
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WHO CAN HELP STOP WHALING? CANON CAN! (not verified)

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ESTAMOS AGUARDANDO! minke-whale
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A DINAMARCA TEM RÓTULO DE SANGRIA E TERROR E SUAS ILHAS EXALAM SANGUE INOCENTE DE ANIMAIS INDEFESOS
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Target:Prime Minister Jannes Eidesgaard
A DINAMARCA NAO TOMA PROVIDENCIA E A BALEAÇAO CONTINUA NAS ILHAS FAROE DESTRUINDO PESSOAS E SERES MARINHOS.

petition overview | letter
End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in the Faroe Islands!
Target:Prime Minister Jannes Eidesgaard
Sponsored by: John Koehler

www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-whale-dolphin-s

Whales are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems. They have a profound capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain. Each year, the Faroese kill pilot whales and other small cetaceans.

Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase may be lengthy. The exhausted, terrified and confused whales are eventually driven into the shallows. Here the bloodbath begins. The islanders repeatedly hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the living flesh of each whale until the hooks hold. A 15 cm knife is then used to slash through the blubber and flesh to the spinal column. Next the main blood vessels are severed. The blood-stained bay is soon filled with horribly mutilated and dying whales.

The Faroese celebrate the butchery of their victims in an carnival atmosphere of entertainment. Indoctrinated from an early age, children are often given a day off school to watch the fun. They run down to the bay and clamber over the carcasses of slaughtered whales.

Every year around 2,000 whales are driven ashore and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. For centuries the Faroe Islanders have hunted pilot whales, driving entire schools into killing bays, where they are speared or gaffed from boats, dragged ashore and butchered with knives. Although the Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or "grind" as it is known.

Aside from the fact that the number of North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as 'strictly protected' by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness. By slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.

The drive hunt is a practice abandoned elsewhere many decades ago, and now outlawed by other European states. The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and be dumped; it cannot be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins and therefore cannot meet EU heath standards for human food.

According to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).
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End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in the Faroe Islands! -
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-whale-dolphin-s
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VERGOGNA alle FAROE!!! Diffondere...
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WARNING: Do not eat whale meat
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PROVIDENCIAS URGENTES:
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MIRIAM GODET disse:

Verdade: VEJA QUE GALERIA:
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RETRATO DA DINAMARCA - ILHAS FAROÉ - CHAMAM ISSO DE SER HUMANO? ESTOU VENDO PSICOPATAS-Nature - Grindadráp í Syðragøtu, august 2006/Mynd: Janus Hansen
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www.faroenature.net/gallery/displayimage.php? album=298&am...
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colaborandocomanatureza.blogspot.com/2009/01/ faroenature-...
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Verdade: MISERÁVEIS, ESTÚPIDOS, ASSASSINOS, PSICOPATAS, ABOMINÁVEIS, INSENSATOS, DESTRUIDORES, INDIVIDUOS DE ALTA PERICULOSIDADE...IRREPARÁVEIS E INSIGNIFICANTES!

MIRIAM GODET: APENAS INSIRA SEU E-MAIL E FAÇA UMA GRANDE AÇÃO - MASSACRE DAS BALEIAS -www.beppegrillo.it/iniziative/whalesmassacre/
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* Galeria: www.flickr.com/photos/9183672/
* Perfil: www.flickr.com/people/9183672/
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WHALES MASSACRE:
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