PROTECT …. don’t DESTROY Nature!!! There will be a price to pay!!
This video from Australia is called Swimming with Dwarf minke whales on board Eye to Eye Marine Encounters.
From The Age daily in Australia:
Australia’s swim-with-whales tourism more lucrative than Japanese harpooning operations
December 1, 2013
Andrew Darby
Hobart correspondent for Fairfax Media
Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the sub-Antarctic for the first time, sharply raising the stakes of Japanese whaling.
Until now, the Japanese ”scientific” hunt, which kills minkes, was thought to harpoon whales that lived almost exclusively in the Antarctic.
But a satellite tracking program on dwarf minke whales, the focus of growing reef tourism, followed one nicknamed Spot deep into the Southern Ocean before its tag expired. Asked if these whales could be taken by the whalers, CSIRO environmental scientist Matt Curnock said: ”We are very concerned about that, yes.
”In tourism, they are…
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