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IWC votes against Greenland Indigenous whaling

(From ABC News) The International Whaling Commission has voted against a plan to kill humpback whales for traditional food. Australia and other anti-whaling countries secured the numbers to reject the first vote at this year”s meeting.

The pro-whaling countries had hoped to secure enough votes to allow Greenland”s Indigenous communities to hunt humpbacks for food, but the proposal failed. 

Environment Minister Peter Garrett says it was questionable.

“Because there was disagreement about the science and the delivery of the science and the need for humpbacks to be taken at this time, we believed that this was not a proposal that should be supported,” he said.

Conservation groups say Greenland has crossed the line and last year a quarter of its catch for Indigenous groups was sold on supermarket shelves.

Cedric Liburd from St Kitts says Indigenous people have been denied a basic right.

“Stop this blatant act by denying them of feeding themselves in the upcoming harsh winter. Today’s a dark day,” he said.

Greenland kills around 230 whales a year.

(By environment reporter Sarah Clarke in Santiago)

 

 

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