Essays on Whaling

For this year’s Research Report, I had decided to look into the issue of tribal whaling, under the topic – Human and other species. The allowance of tribal whaling has been repeatedly questioned across nations and cultures. The Makah has been hunting whales for at…

There are thirty-four kinds of whales in the world which can be broken down into two categories: baleen whales and toothed whales. The right whale (baleen) was probably one of the first whales that were really highly sought after. This was because they swam close…

It is evident that whaling and whale watching cannot co-exist. Whaling has no clear impact on fish stocks and has proven to be unprofitable and harmful of Iceland’s otherwise global image. The League of Nations raised concerns about the excessive killing of the whale stocks…

When a species of an animal or plant becomes extinct, it ceases to exist on earth. This may seem like a very obvious statement, but it is important to remember exactly what “endangered” means and what a threatened species is in danger of becoming. There…