Sir Edmund Hillary calls for whale protection
When someone sent me an email titled, "Hillary criticizes whaling", I immediately jumped to the conclusion it was Senator Hillary Clinton. But instead it was the the famed explorer Sir Edmund Hillary who, on what he is calling his final trip to Antarctica, made a point of calling for an end to the Southern Ocean whale hunt:
"I was always prepared to come back one more time," said Hillary, whose comments were reported by New Zealand media traveling with the anniversary delegation. "I don't think it'll ever happen again, but this is a marvelous return."Hillary criticized Japan for its policies allowing whaling for scientific purposes, and for pushing to revoke the international ban on commercial hunting. The Japanese whale hunting season began recently in waters at the far south of the world.
"They just don't seem to have accepted that these creatures, wonderful creatures that they are, should be carefully protected," Hillary said.
More on his Antarctic visit here.
And you can join the defense of the whales here.
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