On 31 March, 2014, the International Court of Justice met in relation to answering Australias claim that Japans whaling program was illegal and in breach of the International Whaling Convention. Obviously, the court decided and ruled that all permits relating to so called research whaling are to be revoked. This is a massive win for the whales who migrate yearly past the Australian coast to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. We use the word ‘monster’ to describe an animal somehow different from us, somehow scary. But who is the more monstrous? The whales, who ask only to be left alone to sing their rich and plaintive songs, or the humans, who set out to hunt them and destroy them, and have brought many whales species close to the edge of extinction? - Carl Sagan
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:53:47 +0000
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