Although people started to save the whales in 1986 with the worldwide whaling ban, more than 30,000 whales have been killed since the ban, many of these because so-called "scientific whaling" is allowed under an international loophole.
Some whales continue to live up to an hour after being speared with an explosive harpoon, which is supposed to provide “instantaneous” death. Others are shot full of bullets to be finished off, feeling the agony of multiple gunshot wounds before slowly dying. The painful killing of whales does not benefit science, whales or people. Research conducted in this manner is completely unnecessary, as other humane methods for collecting identical data already exist.
Let's expose the illegal trade in whale products, transform the “scientific” whaling model to one that is ecologically sound, and promote whale watching instead of whaling.
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