Sad news has come in that the proposed "Whaling Peace Deal" has fallen through, This is a real shame for both Whales and international cooperation.
As usual all sides are blaming each other for the breakdown but I think that there is unlikely to be any end to whaling until, unfortunately, there are simply no whales left to kill.
Currently three countries; Japan, Iceland and Norway hunt around 2000 whales a year and the deal was to reduce this in return for a smaller permitted amount. This deal however pleased no one, as the Japanese and Norwegian Whalers did not want a reduced amount of whaling and the environmentalists were scared that it would start to legalise Whale hunting again.
So I guess we will simply have to continue to see scenes of Green Peace blocking Whaling ships for a few more years yet.
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