Defying the world again, Iceland kills what may be an endangered blue whale

[TexasTowelie]

The images are sickening and reminiscent of the photos trophy hunters tend to post with their safari kills.

Workers for the Icelandic whaling industry are seen posing with and sitting on top of what appears to be the corpse of a blue whale — the largest animal on earth and an endangered species.

Other images show the animal being dismembered and processed into meat.

The news that Icelandic whalers have killed what strongly appears to be a blue whale — an animal that has not been deliberately captured since 1978, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature — is deeply disturbing.

Read more: https://www.wisconsingazette.com/blogs/defying-the-world-again-iceland-kills-what-may-be-an/article_636403fc-7c48-554f-86b7-51cf4121fa8c.html

[Rhiannon12866]

1. I was wondering about the repercussions

Iceland’s whaling is done in defiance of the global moratorium on whaling agreed in 1982 by the IWC. The IWC does not set quotas for commercial whaling. Iceland sets its own quotas and this year, after a two-year pause, its whalers started to take fin whales again, despite the fact that these animals too remain globally endangered.

And Iceland has taken the seat on the Human Rights Council vacated by the US.


Iceland to take vacated US seat on Human Rights Council
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142108978