Posted by Greenpeace team (at the last day of the International Whaling Commission, in Anchorage, Alaska)
The functional extinction of an entire species the Baiji dolphin – got just fifteen minutes of fame (or maybe less) here at the International Whaling Commission meeting. The Vaquita, the Mexican dolphin likely to become extinct in the near future got about as much notice. No time at all was spent on the estimated 3,288 cetaceans that have died worldwide as bycatch since the 59th IWC meeting began, plus the incalculable
deaths from other human causes like ship strikes, pollution, bycatch and climate change.
Continue reading The IWC ends: But what about the Baiji and the Vaquita?…