Australia anti-Japan whaling video
p2pnet news | Politics:- “Hi: I’m Malcolm Turnbull. I’m the Australian minister for the environment.
“Can you imagine what life on Earth would be like without these magnificent creatures? Hundreds of years of whaling have nearly wiped them out.”
That’s part of his message on an official government video which is now also playing on YouTube
For the first time, Japan plans to hunt 50 humpback whales in the Antarctic over the coming summer and, “935 minke whales for scientific research,” says Reuters.
The story goes on:
Japan’s fisheries agency, confident its whaling rights will be confirmed, has challenged any country to take it to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Here’s the rest of Turnbull’s message:
Action by our government and other nations has secured a global ban on commercial whaling and whale populations are now slowly recovering.
But there’s still whaling going on by some countries – often under the pretext of scientific research.
We urge all countries, especially our friends in Japan, to bring their whaling programs to an end.
Australia is leading research in to whale strandings and disentanglements and we’re working with our Pacific neighbours to share information about the financial benefits whales can bring to tourism industries.
Do you know, in every sense, whales are worth much more in the ocean than they are on the butcher’s hook.
At the International Whaling Commission we were able to maintain the ban on commercial whaling.
While I was in Anchorage I met Skye Bortoli, Ayesha Future and Caitlyn Frerk who are a fantastic group of girls who set up Teens Against Whaling.
They handed a petition of over 40,000 signatures to the Chairman of the IWC, calling on Japan to stop its whaling program.
Now sisters Skye and Caitlyn are continuing their action against whaling.
Skye Bortoli
We’ve been doing lots of interviews and getting involved with our local community.
Malcolm Turnbull
Skye and Caitlyn aren’t lone voices. It’s clear from their first petition, and newspaper articles from around the country, that this issue is vitally important to Australians.
At Kincoppal Rose Bay, a Sydney girls school, I’ve found other teenagers share their passion.
Student
I think Australians are very strongly against whaling and many people that I know love whales and don’t want to hurt them.
Malcolm Turnbull
Australians want to see whales protected internationally and part of our global effort includes education. We’ve set up an interactive web site for students about whales. These students were the first to log on.
The Australian Government is committed to the total protection of whales and as the Minister for the Environment I will continue to work towards this goal because Australians don’t want whales to disappear from our planet.
Also See:
Reuters – Australia challenges Japan whaling on YouTube, October 9, 2007
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October 9th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I just jacked a submarine and I am now cruising in the sea of Japan hunting for waling boat like a big Mobydick.
I have been always on the side of Moydick with my big torpedoes and machine guns!
October 9th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Isn’t it interesting how people like this feel that they have the right to govern over other countries and their cultures.
As a cultural anthropologist, I have seen many moves lie this by people across the world, with very little idea on what is going on. But as long as it sounds good politically and make the people who are chanting for the cause feel good, there will always be people like this who ignore a more realistic problem and try to go “the easy way”.
As in the case with the whole global warming scare, whaling has been and continues to be misrepresented of the facts. While it is a fact that the number of many whales have decreased, many of the whales listed in the whaling ban are in fact experiencing an over population, causing a major increase of fish consumption, thus a major decrease in number of sardines as well as other fish.
Also, Japanese shipping lanes are having many occurrences of passenger ships hitting whales, and nearly sinking.
Whaling has been a cultural and economic market for many countries including Japan, Norway, Iceland, etc… Many people in these countries relied on this commerce for their livelihood, and were sent to the poor house to make a few rich people feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I can’t seem to remember when people were screaming about the barbarity of eating a tuna sandwich, yet most people’s opposition about people whaling stem from their feeling that eating a whale is “barbaric”.
Now it all nice and good as long as you or your company/country isn’t affected economically by proposals like this, but I wonder what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot.
I think many people should really think about what the “real agenda” is, behind this video.
Just my Two Cents.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:46 am
“Isn’t it interesting how people like this feel that they have the right to govern over other countries and their cultures.”
What about the right of the wale? Wale are people too!
This time it is not about governing over country or culture it is about beeing for or against Mobidick.
Personaly I am for mobidick; and you?