whaling moratorium

• Cara Horowitz
• April 16, 2010

20-year whaling moratorium on the chopping block

You wouldn’t know it from the headline of this week’s NYT article (“US Leads New Bid to Phase Out Whale Hunting,”) but the worldwide commercial-whaling moratorium that has been in place since 1986 is under seige.  Countries are meeting this week to work out details of a deal in which the world’s three leading whaling …

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