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Ecosystem modelling to quantify the impact of historical whaling on Southern Hemisphere baleen whales

, 2018
Many baleen whales were commercially harvested during the 20th century almost to extinction. Reliable assessments of how this mass depletion impacted whale populations, and projections of their recovery, are crucial but there are uncertainties regarding ...
Vivitskaia J. D. Tulloch   +4 more
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Whale‐watching trips in Peru lead to increases in tourist knowledge, pro‐conservation intentions and tourist concern for the impacts of whale‐watching on humpback whales

, 2017
Since the implementation of the commercial whaling ban in the 1980s, whale‐watching has become the most important economic activity involving whales worldwide.
A. García-Cegarra, A. Pacheco
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Sustainable use of whales: whaling or whale watching?

1996
An examination of the history of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) can offer valuable insights to those managing the exploitation of other wild mammals. To understand the many issues one must look further than the IWC’s past inability to manage whaling which resulted in the declaration of an indefinite moratorium on commercial whaling.
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Whale mining, whale saving

Marine Policy, 1985
When delegates attending the UN Conference on the Human Environment, at Stockholm in 1972, voted overwhelmingly for a ten-year moratorium on commerical whaling, few would have believed that 14 years would elapse before that resolution endorsed by the UN General Assembly would be implemented.
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A whale of a library

Nature Biotechnology, 2009
The MoBY-ORF collection of barcoded yeast genes provides mechanistic insights into antiproliferative compounds.
Deming Xu, Terry Roemer
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A Whale Story [PDF]

open access: possibleNature, 1926
MANY readers of NATURE may have heard an incredible story, broadcast by the B.B.C., Regional, on January 11, 1938, in a series of talks called “Strange to Relate”, about an alleged James Bartley of the Star of the East having been swallowed by a sperm whale and recovered alive from its stomach some hours after.
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

, 2014
In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while ...
H. Whitehead, L. Rendell
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Whales and Modern Whaling

The Geographical Journal, 1933
R. N. R. B., James Travis Jenkins
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Unveiling the Whale: Discourses on Whales and Whaling

International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2010
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Whaling and Whale Oil

Geographical Review, 1941
Karl Brandt, Edward A. Ackerman
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