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Whaling Compromises Of Little Use

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What about Norway and Iceland? Iceland recently announced a quota of 100 fin whales - an endangered species - which is a dramatic increase its original self-assigned quota of nine. Tags: norway iceland whale Japan whaling. And they flagrantly continue killing. They also almost doubled their quota of Minke whales. ".

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Whales Losing the Will to Live?

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Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species.

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Missing Mojo

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Perhaps the biggest event of this winter has been the late winter occurrence of hundreds of ‘white-winged gulls’ from Shetland to Dover and seemingly at all points in between we, in Britain & Ireland, have been inundated with Iceland Gulls and Glaucous Gulls in recent weeks. for a drake Baer’s Pochard.

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Whales in danger.

4 The Love Of Animals

The plan can mean not only reversing the current ban on whale hunting by Norway, Iceland, and Japan for the next ten years, but will allow whaling in the internationally recognized whale sanctuary around Antarctica. Whales are facing more threats today than ever before, largely from commercial whaling.

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Collaborative List 2017 – February

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Submissions for February have been received from Austria, Australia, UK, Japan, Costa Rica, Serbia, Mexico, USA, The Bahamas and Lichtenstein. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides. Last year beats were being spotted way beyond their usual habitat with checklists shared from India, Puerto Rico and Israel. 09 Jan 2017. 09 Jan 2017.

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Collaborative List – March 2018

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During March, 11 beats shared 122 checklists to accumulate 680 species from 8 countries; USA, Costa Rica, Serbia, India, Australia, New Zealand, UK and Japan. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides. In a blatant attempt to make the figures look even better than they already, any sightings shared with another beat will be counted twice.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

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9 countries were visited during March by your tireless beats ( 11 of them); India, UK, USA, Serbia, Costa Rica, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides. There can be no denying that spring is coming and with it, the summer visitors and passage migrants. Herring Gull – Larus argentatus.

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