Whales, a wonderful and magnificent innovation of mother nature. Not only they are beautifying the environment, but also they help to stabilize the ecosystem by maintaining the over flow of the food chain in the sea. Furthermore they are carrying a big value towards the specific country’s tourism industry. From whale watching and whale swimming the certain country can attracts many foreign tourists towards their country. But these creatures are endangered. Whaling is the main threat to their survival. Whaling is a murder which is happening in Japan, Norway and Iceland waters. From the past, whaling is doing on commercial purposes. In the modern day, they are using even more advance tools to kill whales. Whalers turning water in to blood by
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(ozpolitic.com).However this argument is weak. According to (worlwildlife.org), now whales have become endangered species. They stated that now the whale population gone down to 10,000 – 90,000 and there are only 300 North Atlantic right whales remaining. According to (whalesfacts.org, 2017), Female whales give birth to a new baby whale, in 1-6 years. So there is no possibility of rising in the whale population. Supporters of whaling, argues that whaling is not the major problem that kill whales and from ship clashes and fishing nets whales can die. They have stated from those incidents, annually 300,000 whales are dying (Rose 2017). However, this argument is irrelevant for many reasons. Firstly, the fact remains that in near future, because of whaling, whales will be extinct. According to data of (wwf.panda.org) only Japanese whalers hunt 886 whales in years between 2006 and 2007. They also caught fin whales which currently most endangered whale in the world. Not only in Japan, but also in Iceland and Norway, whalers hunt nearly 600 whales in 2006. Also ship clashes are natural incidents and they happened not for commercial purposes. Therefore, the argument that mainly whales die because of ships or fishing nets is not the main cause for their deaths. What must be argued is that how these magnificent mammals should be protected by the
(ozpolitic.com).However this argument is weak. According to (worlwildlife.org), now whales have become endangered species. They stated that now the whale population gone down to 10,000 – 90,000 and there are only 300 North Atlantic right whales remaining. According to (whalesfacts.org, 2017), Female whales give birth to a new baby whale, in 1-6 years. So there is no possibility of rising in the whale population. Supporters of whaling, argues that whaling is not the major problem that kill whales and from ship clashes and fishing nets whales can die. They have stated from those incidents, annually 300,000 whales are dying (Rose 2017). However, this argument is irrelevant for many reasons. Firstly, the fact remains that in near future, because of whaling, whales will be extinct. According to data of (wwf.panda.org) only Japanese whalers hunt 886 whales in years between 2006 and 2007. They also caught fin whales which currently most endangered whale in the world. Not only in Japan, but also in Iceland and Norway, whalers hunt nearly 600 whales in 2006. Also ship clashes are natural incidents and they happened not for commercial purposes. Therefore, the argument that mainly whales die because of ships or fishing nets is not the main cause for their deaths. What must be argued is that how these magnificent mammals should be protected by the