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...GREAT BRITAIN Save the Whales Despite intense pressure from Japan and Norway, the International Whaling Commission meeting in London ended without a vote on repealing a ban on commercial whaling. Japan, which catches several hundred Minke whales annually for "scientific research," and Norway, which did not sign the 1986 moratorium, argued that populations of several species can now sustain controlled hunting, but they recognized that they could not win the necessary 75% of votes to overturn the ban. Proposals by Australia, New Zealand and Brazil to introduce two new whale sanctuaries in the South Pacific and South Atlantic also failed...
...important. "Blaming whales for eating too many fish is like blaming woodpeckers for deforestation," responds Greenpeace. The diplomatic wrangle of the week, though, was the commission's decision to admit Iceland only as an observer. Iceland walked out of the IWC in 1992, saying it never expected the 1986 moratorium to be in place that long. Last month, Iceland wanted back in - while saying it reserved the right to resume whale hunting if it decided the populations were strong enough. That caveat was enough for a majority of the commission to deny the country a vote. Counting Iceland in their...
According to a Harvard representative, the University has no opposition to the requested extension, particularly because it would not be ready to begin construction on the art museum when the moratorium currently expires in April...
...moratorium was enacted to allow Riverside residents time to create a committee to plan future development of their neighborhood...