Animal Committee Behind Whaling

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Animal CommitteeBehind Whaling

• 3rd GYLS
• 2008/7/19

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Outline

• Introduction of the Whaling topic
• Whaling in Japan
• Whaling in Australia
• Our Job in Animal Committee

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Brief Talk of Whales

• Do you like eat fish? Why?
• Not enough fish/whale to eat?!
• Imagine whale meat eaten by over 60 billion
  people,
• gt environment
• Disastrous unbalance

Refhttp//www.greenpeace.org/international/campai
gns/oceans/whaling
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Why Stop Whaling?

• Animals at risk

RefWikipedia
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Why Whales decrease so fast?

• Hunted by man---Japan, Iceland
• Climate change
• Ship strike
• Water pollution

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About Whaling Japan (I)
Time Table

• (8th Century)
• Emperor Jimmu
• Oldest written mention of whaling in Japanese
  records
• After World War II, food was scarce, whale meat
  
• were considered cheap source of protein
• became a larger part of the Japanese
• post-war diet
• Aboriginal change their main food.
• Culture

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About WhalingJapan (II)

• 2006 December 19th

http//weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/
2006/12/stockpiles_of_whalemeat_are_in.html
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About WhalingAustralia (I)

• 1979almost all whale species had been hunted to
  the brink of extinction
• Member of the International Whaling Commission
  (IWC)
• Last whaling station closed in 1978
• 25 years of hard work, numbers of whales
• have increased
• National Whale Day6/14

Ref http//www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx
?oid228569
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About WhalingAustralia (II)

• 2008-January 2en
• Animal Liberation protests whaling slaughter at
  Japanese Consulate

Refhttp//www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18
469744.php
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Why Stop Whaling?

• Minke Whales (??? ) In Korea
• During 11 days sailing
• ? Sighted only ONCE !!!

Ref http//www.greenconsumerguide.com/index.php?n
ews2518
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What Should We Do? (I)

• Many Conservation Groups
• IWC
• http//www.iwcoffice.org/index.htm
• IFAW
• http//www.ifaw.org/
• WWF
• http//www.wwf.org/
• Non-financial organization
• Greenpeace

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What Should We Do? (II)
Our Job for the Global Youth Leadership Summit (I)
Find Informations!!!

• Find informations and jot down everything thats
  important
• Read more, Write more, Think more, Speak more
• Put your PASSION on this topic!!!

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What Should We Do?(III)
Our Job for the Global Youth Leadership Summit
(II)
Paper Writing Outline

• 1. Introducing Overfishing
• The past and the present
• The Sixth Extinction
• 2. Whaling Nowadays
• Between Pros and Cons
• 3. What IWC does to change whaling?
• 4. Fishery Subsidy and Whaling
• How subsidy can change whaling

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Sherry really do a great job!!!