The sea turns red with blood in Faroe Islands as dozens of whales and dolphins are slaughtered. On average, 1500 dolphins are massacred every year in the Faroe Islands, which invoke an ancestral tradition to justify this barbaric practice,” Despite an international ban on commercial whaling, whales are still being killed across the world’s oceans.
If whaling continued on such a massive scale the whales could be extinct in less than 30years. Consequences from over-whaling include increased carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming and leads to melting of the polar ice caps and changes in the eating habits of many marine animals. It should ensure that whaling would remain strictly limited and stringently controlled. It must close the door on the aspirations of other countries which may be anticipating taking advantage of the growing anarchy swirling around the IWC. It is, in short, the whales’ best hope.
Syeda Ruqiya Fatima
Karachi
