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Written by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
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Monday, 02 August 2010 20:45 |
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It’s been over a week since I was in Klaksvik and I’ve since then read that another grind took place in Torshavn. I’m not surprised because I know that change takes time. I never expected the grind to end overnight because I took some photos. But I still feel optimistic because if I look at history I know that one day the killing will stop.
Whaling helped build the country of Australia. The shores of the island of Tasmania are littered with old whaling stations. A single whaling station in Queensland on the northeast coast of the country took 6,277 humpback whales in a single decade in the mid-20th century. In the 1950s and 60s, one whaling company in Western Australia was taking an average of 1,000 sperm and humpback whales a year....
Source: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
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