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Domestic opinion on whaling is changingPosted by Irene at 4:34 PM, July 4, 2004Results show that over a third of Icelandic people, traditionally a whaling nation, no longer support whaling. Whale meat consumption is rapidly decreasing and the domestic tourism industry is coming out strongly against whaling. The Government of Iceland should react wisely to public opinion and cancel its scientific whaling programme altogether. Greenpeace used to be considered an enemy of Iceland, following earlier The poll was conducted by IMG Gallup for Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) The question was: Are you in favour or against Icelanders starting whale hunting again? The support has dropped to 67,3 percent from 74,6 last year. That might not sound like a lot, but seen the circumstances in Iceland it is very encouraging. Post a
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Unfortunately, due to the proliferation of spam, we have had to close the posting of comments to articles older than 1 month. What is wrong with Iceland's whaling anyway? How much does Greenpeace receive in "anti-whaling" donations each year? Is this why you keep up the fight to "save the whale"? Posted by: at July 10, 2004 12:27 AMMy opinion: Iceland's reasons for scientific whaling are FUBAR and if we can stop Iceland from whaling we are closer to protecting whales from the scary possibility that commercial whaling will be resumed by Iceland, Norway and Japan in the next few years. Posted by: Lizardfish at July 10, 2004 12:57 AMI MYSELF NOR ANYONE THAT I KNOW WILL NEVER VISIT ICELAND NOR GIVE ANY NICE RESPONSE TO PEOPLE PLANNING ON VISITING. SIMPLY PUT WHALING MUST STOP! Posted by: KIMBERLY SUTTER at July 11, 2004 8:49 PMI wonder how many of you criticising Iceland's whaling have actually read any of the Icelandic researcher's proposals for the research? It looked pretty good to me - and as for the Japanese scientific whaling, it has received a great deal of praise. Take this from the IWC's scientific committee in 1998 for example: "The [scientific whaling] programme is providing information leading to a substantial improvement in knowledge of stock structure... and contributing useful information on the role of minke whales in the Antarctic ecosystem, particularly with information on feeding and energetics, as well as providing some information relevant to the committee's work on pollution studies and the effect of environmental change on cetaceans." What the whale populations need is more research, not less. The problem is that groups such as Greenpeace instead prefer to go for cash instead of trying to help progress science. Posted by: at July 15, 2004 1:44 PMHello anon, I have read the Icelandic research programme, and I'm not at least impressed, such pompous words without any meaning. What the hell have all those Japanese scientists and Icelandic scientists been doing all these years with the thousands of whales they have been slaughtered in the name of science, and still must do such elementary procedures such as checking stomach contents(I have personally done many autopsies on mammals). Ann Posted by: Ann Novek at July 15, 2004 3:02 PM |
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Take the pledge to visit Iceland- if they stop whaling
The common minke whale is a threatened species on the IUCN Red List
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