Word: prideaux
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...some areas. Proposals for two new whale sanctuaries, in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific, were shot down again. Such moves require the support of three-fourths of voting members rather than a simple majority. "It's a very high hoop to have to jump through," says Margi Prideaux, Australian director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. But the breakthrough came in the bold new Mexican-led Berlin Initiative - co-sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andrés Rozental, a former Deputy Foreign Minister...