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[moinsdewatt]

Whaling: Japan kills 333 cetaceans in Antarctica
A fleet of five ships started their campaign in November as part of the controversial Japanese scientific whaling trip.

Le Monde.fr with AFP | 31.03.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

Japanese whalers returned to port on Saturday March 31 after capturing 333 cetaceans in the Antarctic Ocean, without having been confronted with the slightest protest by organizations opposed to the hunt, authorities said.
A fleet of five ships started their campaign in November as part of the controversial Japanese scientific whaling trip. Three whalers, including the main vessel in the fleet, the Nisshin Maru, arrived at Shimonoseki harbor in western Japan on Saturday morning, a port official said.

In total, the five whalers caught 333 minke whales, as expected, without being interrupted by opponents of these campaigns, the Fisheries Agency said in a statement.


Sea Shepherd absent

Japanese whalers have faced animal welfare organizations in the past, including Sea Shepherd. The NGO announced last year that it was not planning a protest operation at sea this season.

In December 2016, the NGO Sea Shepherd and the Japanese whalers were still playing cat and mouse in the vastness of the Southern Ocean. Thanks to their helicopter, environmentalists had managed to locate and take a picture of a Japanese boat, described as a "floating slaughterhouse": on its deck lay a Minke whale, a protected species, which had just been fished. Nearby were two harpoon fishing vessels. The scene took place, according to the NGO, in Australian Antarctic waters, in the heart of the Australian Whale Sanctuary, an area where all whaling is prohibited.

Sea Shepherd has been asking Australia for several years to send boats to stop the Japanese from fishing. “We are the only ones between the Japanese hunting boats and these magnificent whales. But it's not up to us to be there, ”said Jeff Hansen in 2016.

Fault

Since 1986, whaling has been prohibited. Japan has signed the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on hunting, but it uses a flaw in the text to circumvent it by claiming to carry out scientific studies, which is authorized. Tokyo, however, has a hard time convincing the truth of its argument, and whale meat continues to be served in some Japanese restaurants.

The International Court of Justice had ordered Japan in 2014 to end its regular hunting campaigns in Antarctic waters, stressing that they did not meet the required scientific criteria. The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, reiterated, at the end of January, his country's will to continue the so-called "scientific" whaling in the Antarctic and to resume commercial fishing in the long term.

Whale consumption has a long history in Japan, where it has been hunted for centuries. The whaling industry boomed after the Second World War to bring animal protein to the people of the country. Demand from Japanese consumers has, however, dropped considerably in recent years.

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2 ... _3244.html

[Leo Maximus]

Whaling: Japan kills 333 cetaceans in Antarctica
A fleet of five ships started their campaign in November as part of the controversial Japanese scientific whaling trip.

333 only ?! Ridiculous, these Japanese amateurs are ...

1500 cetaceans massacred last year in the Faroe Islands alone, the Danish archipelago. Denmark is a member country of the EU. Europeans have always been much better massacrers than Asians.

The Scandinavian countries are countries of high civilization which gives them the right to massacre cetaceans. Estimated at 10000 per year.

[Janic]

moinsdewatt wrote:
Whaling: Japan kills 333 cetaceans in Antarctica
A fleet of five ships started their campaign in November as part of the controversial Japanese scientific whaling trip.
333 only ?! Ridiculous, these Japanese amateurs are ...
1500 cetaceans massacred last year in the Faroe Islands alone, the Danish archipelago. Denmark is a member country of the EU. Europeans have always been much better massacrers than Asians.

DIY all that! In France there are 3.000.000 animals slaughtered every day.
https://www.planetoscope.com/elevage-vi ... monde.html
The slaughter of animals to provide meat represents more than 1900 animals per second (counter) or 60 billion animals killed each year, [*] representing 280 billion kilos (vs. 44 billion in 1950) according to the FAO which predicts 110 billion animals killed each year in 2050. High estimates are 140 billion animals including all species.
Except that these are only the terrestrial animals taken into account to which must be added all the marine animals, or 150 billion worldwide each year. (which include these whales, dolphins and others)
But it is the fault of these lazy whales and dolphins who have only to reproduce more and faster, which would avoid their extinction, and to the Japanese and others to massacre them, sorry, to consume one little more! and long live the bidoche!

"kill them all and god will recognize his own"

[*] 85 billion in 2015 according to the FAO!

[Leo Maximus]

What about flying animals? Forgotten?

Hunting, this imbecile hobby, kills these unhappy animals by the millions.

The National Federation of Hunters has a site: http://chasseurdefrance.com/chasser-en- ... hassables/ which gives a list of flying animals huntable in France:

Common pheasant
Revered pheasant
Gray partridge
Red partridge
Chipeau duck
Mallard duck
Eurasian coot
Goldeneye
Duck of Miquelon
Brown Scoter
Black Scoter
Common Pochard
Common pochard
Tufted Duck
Red crested
Greylag goose
Harvest goose
White-fronted Goose
Northern pintail
Moorhen
Water rail
Summer teal
Teal
Piping duck
Northern Shoveler
Rooks ravens
Carrion crow
Eurasian Jay
Talkative magpie
Red barge
Sandpiper
Common Snipe
Deaf snipe
Barking knight
Harlequin knight
Fighting knight
Red knight
Curlew corlieu
Magpie oyster
Silver plover
Golden plover
Crested Lapwing
Skylark
Woodcock
Wheat quail
Thrush drains
Shore Thrush
Purple thrush
Song thrush
Blackbird
Bisque pigeon
Colombian pigeon
wood pigeon
Turtle Dove
Turkish turtledove
...

And we must add the monumental pollution by lead shot. One cartridge => approximately 30g of lead shot dispersed in the environment. But the hunters defend themselves: "Lead shot comes from the ground and returns to the ground, so hunting does not pollute"... The same could be said of coal, oil or uranium ...

If lead shot cartridges have not been allowed in wetlands for a few years, the damage is done. Example with the Marais de Brière in Loire-Atlantique where a study revealed that one thousand tonnes of lead shot were dumped each year in the marsh. https://www.ouest-france.fr/leditiondus ... 44/page/12

To the pollution by lead shot, we must add pollution by mercury used for a century in primers with mercury fulminate. Estimated quantity of mercury spilled in the Verdun region in 1916: 60 tonnes.

[Leo Maximus]

6 land predator animals according to the National Federation of Hunters:

Land predators according to the FNC.jpg (11.59 KiB) Consulted 4743 times

The fact remains that Earth predator # 1 is Man.

[Janic]

hunting should not weigh heavily in the balance of billions of other murdered animals, but one does not excuse the other. So everything is for the best in the best of all worlds

[izentrop]

An appeal to the end of the world published by astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau https://diacritik.com/2018/08/27/un-app ... -du-monde/

And, no, it is not "too late". It does not mean anything. Too late for what? It is obviously too late for nothing to have happened. It is too late for no damage to be done, for no one to die, for all living beings to be respected in their integrity. So what ? Whether 100 million or 6 billion people die is not the same thing (obviously the poor countries - those who are the least responsible - will pay first). Whether 100 species or 000 million species disappear is not the same thing. Whether the temperature rises 6-2 degrees or 3-5 degrees is not the same thing. Whether it is done in 6 years or in 10 years is not the same thing. It is not "too late" in the sense that evil is not worth the worst. There were 100 million deaths during the last world war. It is an absolute tragedy. But the fact remains that there were not rather 60 million deaths as it would have been possible. Our ancestors fought to limit the extent of the massacre. Fortunately. It is our turn to fight to avoid the Capital End.

Our responsibility is more than immense: it is ontological. We have the being of the world as such in our hands. For the first time in history.

[xav72]

What about flying animals? Forgotten?

Hunting, this imbecile hobby, kills these unhappy animals by the millions.

The National Federation of Hunters has a site: http://chasseurdefrance.com/chasser-en- ... hassables/ which gives a list of huntable flying animals in France.

Do not criticize hunting too much, I believe that there are convinced on this forum of its usefulness.
And if you have the misfortune to defy their good deeds, you have the right to "Anyway if we weren't here you would pay more taxes!"
Reminder of the first thing to scare people and subdue them ---> money.

long live the flush

[moinsdewatt]

South African coelacanths threatened by Eni oil projects

Published 31 / 08 / 2018

The last known colony of coelacanths living in South Africa, off the coast of Sodwana, would be threatened by Eni oil projects, worries the Guardian, in an article published in August.



Discovered in 2000, the group, of around 236 individuals, is located near block ER236, where Eni has petroleum ambitions. A report by the Italian group confirms that it “plans to drill up to six deep water wells in the ER1 block. Four in a northern area of ​​840 km2, at depths between 1 and 500 meters. And two in a southern area of ​​2 km100, at depths of 2 to 905 meters ”.

Problem, the northern zone, off the iSimangaliso wetland reserve, flirts with the range of this colony of living fossils, highlighted by the naturalist Laurent Ballesta during a scientific expedition, followed by '' a report in 2013.


Application of standards

"The risk must be carefully assessed before this commercial venture has progressed too far and it is too late," warns Mike Bruton, marine biologist specializing in this fish. Oil spills do not respect the limits of marine protected areas. "

And Andrew Venter, director of the Wildlands conservation trust, an environmental group in South Africa, recalled: "The oil spill of Deepwater horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 decimated fish populations, therefore if an oil spill occurs off iSimangaliso, it could very well eliminate these coelacanths. "

In its environmental impact study, the Italian oil company remains elusive. "Eni always applies the strictest operational standards, which often exceed local regulations," he defends, adding that an independent study on the modeling of accidental spills was underway.

"Critically endangered"

The coelacanth is 400 million years old. This prehistoric fish is characterized by its fins attached to the bodies by fleshy and bony appendages. It also has an air pocket which could be the vestige of a lung, making the animal a hypothetical missing link in evolution.

The fish was identified in the 19th century, fossilized on slate shales. In 1938, the first living specimen was discovered off the Comoros. Two species of coelacanth have been identified, one in East Africa, the other in Indonesia.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the African coelacanth is "critically endangered", while the one that coasts off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is "vulnerable".

http://www.lemarin.fr/secteurs-activite ... es-projets