banning whaling
Professor Subhamitra Adhikari
Academic Writing B 13 December 2013
Banning whale hunting
Whales are the biggest animals that live on this planet, in the oceans. Depending on their species they can weigh up to 200 tons, the weight of around 12 elephants or 2000 people. It has also been studied that the brains of whales are developed which means they are intelligent creatures. Since centuries whales have been hunted down for their oil and meat. The process of killing whales for their meat and oil is called whaling. In the olden days only the slow moving whales were hunted. By the 17th century the demand for whale oil and meat rose and it wasn’t until the 18th century when a new hunting weapon was invented. Since harpoons were invented, fast paced whales like blue whales could be killed but it is a very cruel way of hunting whales. Whales being the biggest animals of our planet and being driven to almost extinction, it becomes our duty to ban hunting whales and preserve them. Commercial whaling has driven so many whale species to near extinction. Not only that but other factors like ocean noise, pollution, climate changes also threaten their existence. In 1905, since whaler shifted to Antarctic waters, South Georgia became the Centre for whaling and between 1930-1931 30,000 blue whales were killed and processed 1. That nearly drove the blue whales into extinction as they were hardly noticed ever
Lohan 2 since. In 1986 the International Whaling Commission banned whaling all over the world to protect whales from being hunted but despite that, many countries still practice whaling either in disguise of research or to maintain the industrial demand for whale meat and oil. Countries that still practice whaling are Japan, Iceland, Norway. Iceland has recently alone killed hundreds of whales and send tons of whale-meat to Japan whose market is already so full of whale meat. In Japan whale meat is a delicacy and on the pretext of scientific research
Academic Writing B 13 December 2013
Banning whale hunting
Whales are the biggest animals that live on this planet, in the oceans. Depending on their species they can weigh up to 200 tons, the weight of around 12 elephants or 2000 people. It has also been studied that the brains of whales are developed which means they are intelligent creatures. Since centuries whales have been hunted down for their oil and meat. The process of killing whales for their meat and oil is called whaling. In the olden days only the slow moving whales were hunted. By the 17th century the demand for whale oil and meat rose and it wasn’t until the 18th century when a new hunting weapon was invented. Since harpoons were invented, fast paced whales like blue whales could be killed but it is a very cruel way of hunting whales. Whales being the biggest animals of our planet and being driven to almost extinction, it becomes our duty to ban hunting whales and preserve them. Commercial whaling has driven so many whale species to near extinction. Not only that but other factors like ocean noise, pollution, climate changes also threaten their existence. In 1905, since whaler shifted to Antarctic waters, South Georgia became the Centre for whaling and between 1930-1931 30,000 blue whales were killed and processed 1. That nearly drove the blue whales into extinction as they were hardly noticed ever
Lohan 2 since. In 1986 the International Whaling Commission banned whaling all over the world to protect whales from being hunted but despite that, many countries still practice whaling either in disguise of research or to maintain the industrial demand for whale meat and oil. Countries that still practice whaling are Japan, Iceland, Norway. Iceland has recently alone killed hundreds of whales and send tons of whale-meat to Japan whose market is already so full of whale meat. In Japan whale meat is a delicacy and on the pretext of scientific research
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