Today it was announced that the International Whaling Commission's controversial proposal to legalize commercial whaling has failed.
Delegates of the commission’s 88 member governments had been discussing whether to maintain a 24-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling. A 10-year compromise plan proposed by the United States and other antiwhaling nations would have allowed the three countries to resume commercial whaling, but at significantly lower levels and under tight monitoring. Had the ban been lifted it would have lived on in infamy and allowed commercial whaling to continue.
The struggle to monitor and reign in the whaling nations continue but there is a collective sigh of relief that the industry will not be able to have their hunting legalized.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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