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  something to consider

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  Have the existing bans on trade stamped out illegal hunting of wildlife?On Controversy in Kenya posted 2 years, 6 months ago 13 Responses

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  humility

  Interesting to see that the debate has well spread into Kenya now. Hopefully the Kenyans will discover the approach that works best for them, and surely the humble people in other parts of the world will support them in their approach, whatever it may be.

  Kenya must however, avoid trying to impose it's views on other peoples. Unfortunately, Kenya (backed by Mali) has a new proposal for CITES that would prohibit legal trade in ivory, apparently to fight illegal trade in ivory (?). This proposal fails to take their neighboring African states' interests into consideration. On Controversy in Kenya posted 2 years, 6 months ago 13 Responses

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  finally 3.....

  
  Here is an article about Nan Hauser's tagging work that I referred to.

  "It is a month since Ygor arrived from his own tagging project in Brazil; but in the Cook Islands he has yet to tag a single whale, and time and the weather are not on his side."

  "The task is not an easy one."On Humpback whales have 'human-like' brain cells posted 2 years, 11 months ago 26 Responses

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  finally 2...

  "Whether whalers are Japanese or not should have no bearing on this discussion. Whalers are whalers and I see no benefit in clumping them into different categories based on what country they come from in a debate about conservation."

  or ethics for that matter.On Humpback whales have 'human-like' brain cells posted 2 years, 11 months ago 26 Responses

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  finally...

  
  "What I dislike is that he seems to mention these matters as a way to minimize the significance of whaling, or to distract attention away from it."

  Whaling is insignificant in terms of whale conservation, which is my concern. I understand that whaling is significant to you in terms of your ethical ideas. Please try to understand my perspective.

  For the record I have raised the issue of true threats to whales a couple of times recently on my blog, which I am readily able to locate thanks to the new "label" functionality Blogger introduced a few months back:
  http://david-in-tokyo.blogspot.com/search/label/threats%2...
  My focus is very much on the whaling debate, but like Australian researchers I think the whaling issue needs to be resolved if we are ever to get the general public more focused on true conservation threats. Maybe you disagree with my priorities - you are welcome to if you like, but doubting me isn't particularly constructive I feel.

  And finally, please do not make the mistake of misrepresenting my statements. I most certainly do care about animal welfare, and I would like to see killing methods improved. My tolerance / support of dolphin-killing and whale-killing is from a conservation perspective. There is more than one way of looking at the world.On Humpback whales have 'human-like' brain cells posted 2 years, 11 months ago 26 Responses