Minke Whales NOT booming

By Charlie January 30, 2010 No comments yet

The justification used by Japan that the Minke Whale population is booming and thereby stopping other whales recovering is - as a rational person might suspect - a pile of complete doo-doo. A widely reproduced report shows that the Minke population has remained relatively stable and that the idea of ‘culling’ them for scientific research is hokum. Now wait for a new argument for continued killing from the corrupt International Whaling Commission in the coming weeks…

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Charlie

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Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

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