Whaling body agrees path to peace (BBC) {by killing whales}

[eppur_se_muova]

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Santiago, Chile

The global body responsible for whales and whaling has opened the door to the eventual partial lifting of the commercial whaling ban.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) adopted a reform path aimed at finding compromise between pro- and anti-hunting countries.

Delegates at the Commission's annual meeting in Chile agreed the current impasse should not continue.

Governments will try to agree a package of measures by next year's IWC meeting.

To secure the agreement of whaling nations, it is likely that the essential ingredients of that package will have to include the partial resumption of commercial hunting, perhaps limited to coastal waters.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7472228.stm

[Zachstar]

1. So?

Don't we have bigger things to worry about?

[flvegan]

2. ...and Greenland wants to "hunt" humpbacks.

Nice work, IWC. You still suck. Maybe if you enforced ANYTHING you wouldn't have to capitulate to the shithead whaling nations already operating illegally.

[Glorfindel]

3. "Whaling nations" = filthy barbarians

May the pain they inflict return to them fifty-fold.

[Nihil]

4. Well said! (n/t)