Whaling Persuasive Essay

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Saving the wales would be the next big advancer that Greenpeace would go on and it would be one of the longest things that they were ever all dedicated too and this was long before Greenpeace became the way they are today. This would start out with having the us and Canada ban whaling which was not hard to do after proving the facts about how over hunted these animal are. Whale are one of the only animals with bigger brains then humans along with dolphins. And according to Dr. Moore this means there is no humane way to kill one of the largest animals ever to live on our beautiful planet. The two country’s that continued to whale the longest was the USSR and Japan and since in the 80’s with the cold war in full swing a peace group didn’t want to show favoritism they had to go after both equally this was hard when they were trying to find these ships in the middle of the world’s largest ocean …show more content…
So they had to be careful not to have anything happen to it in transport. They go arrested a few times for trying to stop the capture of live whales for displays in zoos and sea world. They also go held hostage in the USSR when they tried to stop a factory whale operation just across from Alaska. This was all caught on film and left in the small raft they were boarding the land with and somehow the small boat footed back to the larger cruzer and then they had the film and made a run for internal waters. As the water became more and more over fished the national waling ordination started putting limits on different species and where you could and couldn’t fish finally in the 90’s whaling was not allowed anywhere. This was a win but sometimes legislation take longer then you want it to but that’s part of

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