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Anchorage, United States —
Following last year's "St. Kitts Declaration", which mumbled that the moratorium on commercial whaling might not be necessary anymore, the anti-whaling countries have bounced back with a 37-4 vote for a resolution strengthening the commercial whaling ban.
This was a major victory for the voices of whale conservation worldwide.
At last year's meeting, 33 countries - led by pro-whaling Japan - voted in favour of the "St. Kitts Declaration," essentially an attempt to restart commercial whaling, which has been banned since 1986. In addition, there were Big Blue Marches all over the world in support of whales - in New Zealand and
Australia, India, Argentina, Ecuador, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, US,
UK, France, Portugal, Columbia, Venezuela, Germany, Brazil, Mexico,
Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Morocco, Romania, Sweden, Singapore, Turkey -
the list goes on and on!
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