Jill's Pick from Around the World: Whaling plan draws anger from green groups


The endangered fin whale.
Photo credit: BBC

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has published draft proposals for regulating whaling for the next decade. Japan's Antarctic whale hunt would fall in stages to less than a quarter of its current size. But hunting would continue on the endangered fin whale. The draft is the latest stage in a two-year process aiming to find compromise between pro- and anti-whaling camps. It will be debated at the IWC's annual meeting in June. Some conservation groups have already condemned it.

Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 4/28/2010 6:00 AM
Categories: Sea Life, Jill's Pick from Around the World
Tags: conservationists international whaling commission japan iwc whaling antartica
 

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