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Which countries are still murdering whales?
Despite the 1986 International Whaling Commission (IWC) ban on commercial whaling, some countries refuse to end their whaling operations.
Japan
Almost immediately after the 1986 whaling ban came into effect, Japan launched its scientific whaling programme, widely recognised as a cover for its ongoing commercial whaling operation. Meat from these whales — supposedly killed for science — is then sold in food markets or given away free or at low costs to schools and hospitals in marketing drives to encourage the consumption of whale meat. The Japanese whaling fleet departs twice a year. In the North Pacific, Japanese whalers can kill up to 200 minke whales, 50 Bryde’s, 100 sei whales and 10 sperm whales under the guise of scientific research. Vessels had been killing up to 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales each year in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary before the International Court of Justice ruled that this was illegal.
Norway
Norway only respected the IWC’s whaling ban until 1993. Using a loophole in the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, Norway objected to the whaling moratorium, and resumed hunting for minke whales. Norway sets its own quota for the number of whales its whalers are permitted to kill for commercial reasons. This number has gone up and up, from being allowed to kill 671 minke whales in 2002 to more than 1,000 today. However, in recent years, less than half of this self-allocated catch limit has been taken. Norway is now hunting a higher proportion of breeding females which could put the long-term survival of minke whales in the North Atlantic in severe danger.
Iceland
Like Japan, Iceland initially conducted a ‘scientific’ whaling programme. Then, in 1992, it withdrew from the IWC. When Iceland re-joined in 2004, it included a clause in its re-entry that spoke out in objection to the whaling moratorium. In 2006, Iceland resumed commercial whaling, targeting minke and fin whales. In 2010 alone, Icelandic whalers killed 148 endangered fin whales and 60 minke whales.
Aboriginal subsistence whaling and other whaling
A small number of countries with indigenous populations claim the hunting and killing of whales is integral to their culture. Whaling that the IWC considers “aboriginal subsistence whaling” is not subject to the moratorium. The IWC allows Denmark (including Greenland), Russia, the United States and the Caribbean nation St Vincent and the Grenadines to conduct aboriginal subsistence whaling. The IWC says “it is the responsibility of national governments to provide the commission with evidence of the cultural and subsistence needs of their people”.
Greenland, for example, is permitted to hunt bowhead, minke, humpback and fin whales claiming a cultural connection. “The whale products are distributed within the hunter families, and some of it is also legally sold on the local open markets. Furthermore a smaller part of the hunt is processed, according to EU veterinary standards, in two localities in Greenland, in order to cover the needs of those local communities, not having access to their own whaling vessel or those communities having a meat deficit. No whale products are exported out of the Kingdom,” the Greenland ministry of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture says.
Between 1985 and 2012 over 9,300 whales have been killed under this exemption to the moratorium.
There are also countries that are not members of the IWC that conduct whaling in line with cultural practices. Canadian Inuit communities hunt bow and beluga whales for food. “These populations have suffered from past commercial hunting for their skin and oil. Presently, they are taken only for food by the Inuit,” the Canadian government’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans says of beluga. Beluga whales are not covered by the IWC, as they are classed as small cetaceans. In 2011, Canadian Inuits killed three bow whales. Indonesia is also home to communities that continue to hunt and kill whales for local consumption. According to Indonesia’s tourism website, between 15 and 20 sperm whales are killed during their annual migration.
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Yes, what the hell is Bill Gates doing there among duly elected leaders? Who does he represent but himself? I don't want him deciding how we tackle climate change. Do you? He is not my leader. Did you vote for him? The only thing he has done for you is to sell you his crappy Windows software and, in the process, made himself rich beyond imagination.
What is he pushing? More technology. Yes, more technology to tackle climate change. What do you think put our world in the mess it is in right now? Technology. More technology is NOT the answer. We need a sea change in how we run our economies and societies, how we consume, how we dispose, how we reuse and recycle, how we conserve and protect the environment. We need transformative change and one of the changes is to get rid of huge corporations such as Microsoft and the dangerous power they endow upon their creators.
If billionaires are driven by guilt or ego (or both) to donate their money to charitable causes, then they should be encouraged to do so. Just don't let them tell us what we need and what we should do.
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What does it mean to you?
Today is October 17.
What does it mean to most of us? Probably it will be a day not much different from yesterday. But, for poor people gathering today at October 17 events around the world it is THE day in their calendar. For them it is a rare and special occasion when they have voice in a place where being poor is not viewed as a personal disability or a social liability, where they are treated with dignity as equal and valued members of society, where people from all walks of life gather to demonstrate their solidarity and commitment to fight poverty everywhere. If you can, spare a moment during your busy day today to embrace the spirit of October 17 as well.
The dangers of industrialised animal agriculture!
The pontiff tells the United Nations General Assembly that it is critical that the international community act now to solve problems ranging from climate change to poverty and inequality of opportunity.
UN adopts SDGs
On 25th September 2015, the 193-Member United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals. The new framework, Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is composed of 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years.
The Goals aim to build on the work of the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which in September 2000, rallied the world around a common 15-year agenda to tackle the indignity of poverty.
The goals apply to all countries, and they are fleshed out with 169 specific targets for action. The estimated price tag for achieving them is $3 trillion, and few people think it will be easy.
Though the goals are not legally binding on any country, they gain moral force from having been adopted by consensus after three years of lengthy negotiations. The sticking points along the way included objections from Qatar, the Vatican and others over access to sexual and reproductive health services, and pushback from the United States and others over reducing inequality. There were, and still are, fierce disagreements over tax loopholes used by firms in poor countries, and on the need to root out corruption.
One big piece of the process remains unfinished: deciding how best to measure whether the targets are being met, so citizens can hold their governments to account. For the sanitation goal, for example, the yardstick might be how many toilets a country has built, or how many homes are connected to a water supply.
Here are the 17 new goals, with links to pages on the United Nations’ website that list the targets associated with each goal.
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Ensure access to water and sanitation for all.
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all.
Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources.
Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss.
Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.
Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Deafening seismic blasting
Seismic Airgun Blasting
Seismic airguns are used to find oil and gas deep underneath the ocean floor.
Airguns are so loud that they disturb, injure or kill marine life, harm commercial fisheries, and disrupt coastal economies. These blasts are repeated every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days and weeks at a time. Seismic airgun testing currently being proposed in the Atlantic could injure 138,000 whales and dolphins and disturb millions more, according to government estimates.
Seismic airguns are towed behind ships and shoot loud blasts of compressed air through the water and miles into the seabed, which reflect back information about buried oil and gas deposits. These blasts harm marine mammals, sea turtles, fish and other wildlife.
Impacts include temporary and permanent hearing loss, abandonment of habitat, disruption of mating and feeding, and even beach strandings and death. For whales and dolphins, which rely on their hearing to find food, communicate, and reproduce, being able to hear is a life or death matter.
Airgun blasts kill fish eggs and larvae and scare away fish from important habitats. Following seismic surveys catch rates of cod and haddock declined by 40 to 80 percent for thousands of miles.
In addition to being devastating for marine life, seismic airguns are the first step toward dangerous and dirty offshore drilling with associated habitat destruction, oil spills and contribution to climate change and ocean acidification.
Oceana is working to halt the use of seismic airguns, and stop the expansion of dangerous offshore drilling.
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Dear America...
President Obama releases the final version of America’s Clean Power Plan—the biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken to combat climate change. Thank you, Mr. President!
Final text of the Sustainable Development Goals
This is the preamble to the document the United Nations General Assembly will adopt in late September which will launch the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for the United Nations development agenda over the next 15 years.
“Preamble
First taste of freedom
Beagles, who had lived their entire lives in cages, romp playfully in the grass for the first time ever, thanks to the Beagle Freedom Project.
Just a few of the laboratory chimpanzees released to the Gut Aiderbichl sanctuary in Austria. The chimps peer cautiously out at the wide open spaces of the sanctuary before excitedly embracing one another.
Three orphaned foxes, raised at the Chintimini Wildlife Center in Oregon, slowly take in their new wild surroundings before finally scampering off into the brush.
Four orphaned raccoons were rescued by Animal Advocates’ Mary Cummins when they were little babies. Upon being released where they were found, the mischievous raccoons had some fun knocking over their carriers before setting out into the woods together.
Chubby seal pups were cared for over the course of several months at the RSPCA in East Winch after the Norfolk tidal surge. The pups eagerly made their way toward the water, using the slippery mud to help expedite their homecoming.
An extremely rare Siberian tiger, named Zolushka, was rescued as a young orphaned cub by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Zolushka made a graceful and beautiful exit upon her return to the wild. According to IFAW, there are only about 400 Siberian tigers remaining in the world.
Kids on animal rights
These videos show how kids react to situations many adults would probably not give a second thought or are too callous to give the matter any serious thought.
Inciting public disorder?
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The truth about bottled water
The Story of Bottled Water
The Story of Bottled Water, tells the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows virtually free from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call for viewers to make a personal commitment to avoid bottled water and support public investment in clean, available tap water for all.
Credits
The Story of Bottled Water was co-created and released by The Story of Stuff Project and a coalition of partners, including Corporate Accountability International, Food & Water Watch, Polaris Institute, Pacific Institute and Environmental Working Group. The movie was produced by Free Range Studios. The truth about bottled water was originally published on globalsocialchange.com