Posted by Dave (in Ireland)
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One of our colleagues, George Pletnikoff, an Aleut working for Greenpeace as an oceans campaigner in Anchorage, has written an article for the Anchorage Daily News on how Japan exploits a loophole that allows it to kill nearly 1000 whales every year.
This May, Anchorage will become ground zero for a very important political battle. The 59th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be held here for nearly three weeks. As the international body that manages the world’s populations of great whales, the IWC has as its most important and lasting concern to maintain the 27-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling.
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