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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.

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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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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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Birding Sweden on the Fly

10,000 Birds

In June of 2013 he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spotting birds in Iceland , Russia , Finland , and, as you’re about to find out, Sweden: We took a quick flight from Helsinki and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, arriving at our fourth country on this trip. How could Norway top this? Spoiler Alert: It did! ).

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Killingholme Haven Pits revisited

10,000 Birds

Álftafjörður, E Iceland. Unfortunately the Bar-tailed Godwit was too distant on an outgoing tide to be able to read any writing on the yellow flag, so although we know it was marked in Norway since 2016 we are not able to find out the individual birds history. Terrington, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England. Elmley, Swale estuary.

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