NewsWhore
12-07-2010, 03:50 PM
Environmental campaigning organization Greenpeace is calling on the Dominican government to join in the fight to stop the killing of humpback whales. Over 900 of these marine mammals visit Dominican waters each year, and the International Whaling Commission has recently permitted the hunting of humpbacks after a 20-year ban. Hoy newspaper says that spokesman Milko Schvartzman told reporters in Santo Domingo that the Dominican Republic joined the International Whaling Commission in 2009 but has not paid the quota needed to have a voice and vote in the meetings of the organization. The quota is a little more than US$10,000, and the lack of the payment kept the DR from voicing its opposition to the vote to renew the killing of humpbacks. The commission voted to allow Greenland to kill nine humpbacks a year for three years during their meeting in Morocco last summer. Since the annual visits of the humpback whale to the Samana Bay represents one of the Dominican Republic's vital interests, tourism, its vote on the commission is all the more important, according to Greenpeace.
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