Negotiations have stalled between the world’s few pro-whaling nations and the vast majority that stand opposed. The BBC reports that Japan has refused to whittle down the number of whales it kills in its annual Antarctic hunt, that no progress is expected through 2009, and that the talks themselves may be in peril.Japan, along with Norway, speak in the loudest pro-whaling voices, claiming they hunt for the sake of science or out of A Lange & Sohne Lange 1 Men's watch sovereign right. Less politically powerful indigenous peoples in Canada or Greenland quietly cling to lower-impact subsistence hunting and face less wrath (though wrath nonetheless) from environmental and animal-rights activists.
orldwide whale populations have plummeted since industrialized hunting fleets spread across the world in the 18th and 19th centuries. Many species continue to teeter on the edge of extinction. Japan’s most recent whaling season was one of the most dismal on record, owing in part to bad weather and part to the active harassment of organizations A Lange & Sohne Watch like Paul Watson’s Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose organization Outside executive editor Michael Roberts writes about in the upcoming June issue, on shelves soon.--Sean Brander
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