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Journal of Biogeography, 2020 This study is the first in Indonesia to assess historical sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) seasonal distributions by combining historical whaling data with environmental factors associated with sperm whale habitat preferences.
Achmad Sahri +3 more
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Anti-whaling activism in Japan
Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2016 This is a preliminary discussion on the development and characteristics of anti-whaling activism in Japan with reference to the activism in Norway. Although Japan and Norway are often considered among the greenest countries in the world, both are also ...
Ko Nomura
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Indigenous Whaling Tradition in Faroe Islands under International Law
Udayana Journal of Law and Culture, 2019 The issue of whaling has been extensively debated in various international occasions since it causes a declines in many of the world’s whale population. Presently, Faroe Islands is one of the few regions in Denmark that still adamantly practiced whaling ...
Olivia Martha Setyonugroho +2 more
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After Withdrawal from the IWC: The Future of Japanese Whaling [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2019 In December 2018, the Japanese government announced that it was withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and would resume commercial whaling in July 2019. This paper revisits four coastal communities that still conduct coastal whaling to see
Fynn Holm
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Current Biology, 2020 Jeremy Goldbogen introduces blue whales, the largest animals to ever inhabit earth.
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South Georgia blue whales five decades after the end of whaling
, 2020 Blue whales Balaenoptera musculus at South Georgia were heavily exploited during 20th century industrial whaling, to the point of local near-extirpation. Although legal whaling for blue whales ceased in the 1960s, and there were indications of blue whale
SV Calderan +12 more
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Stretching the truth: length data highlight falsification of Japanese sperm whale catch statistics in the Southern Hemisphere [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Falsification of reports on Japanese catches of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) is known to have occurred at both land whaling stations and in North Pacific factory fleets. Here, we conduct an analysis of pelagic sperm whale catches in the Southern
Phillip J. Clapham +1 more
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Whaling, Bullfighting, and the Conditional Value of Tradition
Res Publica, 2020 The paper develops an account of the value of tradition that completes that of Samuel Scheffler and employs it to discuss whaling and bullfighting. The discussion, however, is applicable to many other practices the paper describes, and its relevance ...
P. Casal
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An integrated approach to historical population assessment of the great whales: case of the New Zealand southern right whale [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Accurate estimation of historical abundance provides an essential baseline for judging the recovery of the great whales. This is particularly challenging for whales hunted prior to twentieth century modern whaling, as population-level catch records are ...
Jennifer A. Jackson +5 more
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Spatial and seasonal distribution of American whaling and whales in the age of sail. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 American whalemen sailed out of ports on the east coast of the United States and in California from the 18(th) to early 20(th) centuries, searching for whales throughout the world's oceans.
Tim D Smith +3 more
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