Iceland accused of killing rare blue whale

[Still Waters]

One of Iceland's richest men has hit back against claims his whaling company illegally killed a protected blue whale.

"We have never caught a blue whale in our waters since they were protected," Kristján Loftsson, managing director of Hvalur hf, told CNN. "We see them in the ocean. When you approach a blue whale, it's so distinct that you leave it alone."

Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd claimed Wednesday that Loftsson's company had killed and butchered a blue whale in Hvalfjordur, Iceland. Volunteers monitoring the whaling site photographed orange-clad crews examining the massive carcass.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/12/europe/iceland-blue-whale-intl/index.html

[Still Waters]

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Genetic material from a large whale killed off the coast of Iceland has confirmed the creature was a rare hybrid.

Campaigners had been concerned that the slaughtered animal was a protected blue whale, the largest species on the planet.

Now DNA has shown it to be the offspring of a blue and a fin whale, as the whaling company had claimed.

Researchers say these hybrids are rare and trading their meat is illegal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44809115

 

[Imaginarynumber1]

All whaling needs to be put to s stop.