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No More Whales for You, Greenland

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Alexia’s back from holiday, refreshed and raring to go. I had lots of fun relaxing in the Devonshire countryside, ahhh … Kudos to Goldsmith for looking after the blog last week, but it’s now safely back in my hands, muahahaha.

And what great news to return to. Following an International Whaling Commission meeting last week, Greenland has been denied approval to expand its whale slaughter. Excuse me for a moment while I stifle a triumphant yelp (*$@&woo!). Whales die a horrible, long and painful death during harpooning, and some take hundreds of bullets to eventually lose the battle and breathe their last breath.

There’s a whole lot of detail to go with this story at the BBC, and a cute ‘design your own whale’ widget you can check out here.

Tags: Greenland, hunting, IWC, whales, whaling

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posted by Mary on July 1st, 2008 at 9:06 am

Welcome back Alexia - and the whale design thing is so much fun!

posted by Matt on July 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am

Find my whale - Binky!!

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