Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But 1969 proved to be a temporary turning point. In that year a Peruvian government undertook to save the animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned...
In the choppy, chilly waters 100 miles west of the Icelandic coast, the black-hulled Hvalur-8 was chasing a pod of fin whales. The fins, second only in size (75 ft.) to the mammoth blues, are an endangered species fully protected everywhere else in the world, but the Icelanders...
The third and most modest moratorium call has been submitted by the Seychelles, an archipelago 1,000 miles off Africa's eastern coast. The young nation wants a three-year ban on all sperm whaling. It is also asking for creation of a whaling sanctuary in the Indian Ocean...
At present, the IWC takes a rough guess at the numbers of a species and, using little more than simple arithmetic, decides how many whales can be killed without endangering the population's survival. But many scientists argue that the calculations should take other factors into account. Some of...
Even if none of the moratorium calls are approved, the whaling industry may soon be sunk by dwindling profits. Greenpeace has observed that the whaling ships of the U.S.S.R. are rusted and worn and that Japan's are only slightly better-a clear sign that the world's...