Rogue whaling nations continue killing
May 9th, 2008 by admin
Last weekend, a few short weeks after Japan’s whaling fleet returned to port with the bodies of 551 minke whales killed in the waters of the Antarctic, Norway killed its first whale of the season on the other side of the globe. Norway hopes to kill over 1000 whales in 2008.
In 1986, after many species were hunted to the brink of extinction, the International Whaling Commission enacted a moratorium on all commercial whaling. Since then, three nations – Iceland, Norway and Japan – have slaughtered almost 25,000 whales. Unlike the Japanese, the Norwegians don’t pretend to be killing whales for “scientific” reasons; Norway is blatant about the fact that they kill whales to sell the meat for profit.
Whaling is notoriously inhumane. Even when a whale is hit with an exploding harpoon, it can take several minutes or as long as an hour before he or she dies.
Please contact a Norwegian consulate near you and ask Norway to please stop hunting whales.
Contact:
Honorary Consul General Trond S. Jensen
Royal Norwegian Consulate General
*(this is the main consulate for the state of Florida.)
1007 North America Way, Suite 305
Miami, FL 33132
Phone: (305) 358-4386
Fax: (305) 374-4369
E-mail: tsj@rncgmiami.coHonorary Consul George D. Gabel
Royal Norwegian Consulate
50 N. Laura St. #3900
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Phone: (904) 353-2000
Fax: (904) 358-1872
E-mail: ggabel@hklaw.comHonorary Consul Richard L. Appleyard
Royal Norwegian Consulate
4400 Bayoud Blvd., Suite 34
Pensacola, FL 32503
Phone: (850) 494-2194
Fax: (850) 494-0289
E-mail: dick@appleyardagency.comHonorary Consul Arthur Renfro Savage
Royal Norwegian Consulate
701 Harbour Post Dve.
Tampa, FL 33602
Phone: (813) 247-4550
Fax: (813) 247-4256
E-mail: arthurs@arsavage.com