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WDC continues to FIGHT HARD on this crucial issue
WHALING
DESPITE AN INTERNATIONAL BAN on commercial whaling, a few countries continue to hunt by exploiting loopholes that enable them to make money from selling meat and body parts for things like pharmaceuticals and health supplements, in pet food, or served to tourists as a ‘traditional dish’. Around 50,000 whales have been killed since the ban came into effect in the 1980s, with Japan, Iceland and Norway the main culprits. Slaughtering whales has a devastating impact on the whale communities left behind. It is cruel and pointless.
BBC TV presenter and WDC supporter, Michaela Strachan
here is no humane way to kill T a whale at sea. Whales already face many hazards each and every day, and whaling is a further, wholly unnecessary threat to their populations. Low demand means vast amounts of the meat from hunts is kept in frozen stockpiles. WDC continues to fight whale hunting by lobbying and campaigning. We battle to keep the ban in place, to investigate and expose this cruel trade, to prevent new markets for whale products opening up, and to reduce the numbers of whales being slaughtered.
