Commercial whaling may be coming to a close in 🇮🇸 - 1 of only 3 remaining whaling countries 🐳Instead of whale hunting, whale watching is growing quickly “I’m never going to hunt whales again, I’m stopping for good.” Story via @KieranMulvaney @NatGeo nationalgeographic.com/scien…

Nov 8, 2020 · 9:08 AM UTC

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1/2: 34 years since the IWC moratorium on whale hunting, but Norway (commercial) and Japan ("research") may soon find it's no longer viable, or acceptable. What about the Faroes? - partly commercial in spite of emphasis on tradition. Not needed as food seashepherd.org.uk/campaigns…
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I went orca watching in the Lofoten Islands ,the local economy was doing very with whale watching, sadly the nice new hotel who arranged the trip offered on the menu “Lofoten Burgers” made of, minke whale
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Q. What's the economic value of a #Whale ? A1. #Extractive = $80k Dead A2. #Regenerative = $2M+ Alive Inspiring talk #IMF @RC9910 gives hope for engaging #economists politicians & policy @LabsMacro @ekkehardernst #ClimateChange #biodiversity #ecology
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So nothing ethical then, just done for economic reasons; if they had Japan's state aid, they'd carry on as usual. If they want any credit, their govt needs to make it a point of principle & ban it, otherwise, still likely to start back up as soon as it's profitable again
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