Ocean Sentry
(From mercopress.com) – The whale-watching craze really started in 1998 in Argentina, when whale research and observation activities began to develop in the southern province of Chubut. Argentina, Brazil and Mexico are the Latin American countries which have most profited from whale tourism, and Chile has now decided to join in the lucrative activity.
Meanwhile, activists are calling on Chile’s government to take an active role in protecting cetaceans.
“We are waiting for the Congress to vote on a bill that would make Chile’s coast a whale sanctuary,” said a spokeswoman for the Center for Cetacean Conservation (CCC), an environmental NGO committed to protecting the numerous species of whales and dolphins that occupy Chilean waters.
“The text was the initiative of many environmental NGOs, and President Bachelet gave her support to the bill in June.”
