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WHALES-A DYING BUSINESS! - -....- K AN OPEN LETTER 10 THE N.Z. GOVERNMENT... largest, and may be the most complex A jSk . brain yet produced by the evolutionary g- Parllameirt’ Buildings, WELLINGTON. 14th June, 1975. process. The sperm whale is being blown > AS ± ■ to bits to provide lubricating oil for auto- ° Rowling, matic transmissions. > 5 <ss3l W ■ Last week you announced that the Government will soon release plans to help reduce the world whale slaughter a o s» ■ > - We ' ns ‘ s * ese must include New Zealand’s rejoining the International Whaling Commission (IWC), a body The brain of the bottlenose dolphin is 5 KB - which it helped create in 1946, to safeguard for future generations “the great natural resources represented by the larger and as complex as man's the gx H B whale stocks” and “to protect all species of whales from further overhunting.” dolphin is slaughtered for cat food and zi ix ' lEujgSm -g B Despite the fact that this is the only body able to effectively control the whaling industry. New Zealand left it in 1968 exploited for partisan military purposes. — o 11■ — j USt when the dar,ger t 0 many s P ecies was becoming widely apparent. — I 11RWwW w ■ Claims that the IWC is "ineffective,” are no longer true. Once, the IWC was dominated by whaling countries and. Just at the time we are beginning to g H hence, it had a strong industry bias. But now a number of concerned non-whaling nations also belong to the IWC learn the first fascinating lessons about $ TmOhl ft? ■ and are tr y' n § to achieve a more rational balance. In addition, international pressure from without, is forcing the IWC whales dolphins and porpoises we are § " to acknowledge its obligations more, and is forcing certain pro-whaling Governments to abide by IWC decisions, most in danger of destroying them for- < u ■ This, in effect means that the Commission is stronger, and more susceptible to change and improvement than ever ever. ? ■ before in its past. ■ . 1 Q ■ The following points support this contention: There are cheap and available substitutes *7* • Japan and the U.S.S.R., because of intensifying international pressure, are now scared to defy the IWC. This autofor all uses of whale products. Human 8k*""” 5 * matically increases the Commission's effectiveness. consumption of whale meat is declining, jßg u. ■ • The United Nations (under whose auspices the IWC was started) supports the IWC and has, on numerous but the killing of whales and dolphins # JRb u ■ occasions, urged that it be strengthened and improved rather than replaced or by-passed. for pet food, chicken feed, cosmetics and J ■ * The world’s formost wildlife conservation body, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural fertiliser increases The whaling industry Jr Jv < ■ Resources (lUCN), officially supports the IWC. calling it, "the only body from which effective protection can flow.” is relatively minor.’ realising about $l5O Mf > X ■ and urges that countries support ’ rather than ignore lL million a year world-wide Japan and the !"■ — ■ * Althou S h the banning of traffick in whale by-products,. and the introduction of protection for coastal whales, are „ ' . ‘ few > ■ positive and welcome moves, they are limited in that they only apply locally. It is too late to passively “hope other U.8.8.K. are the big whaling nations, each ■KgjpjL * countries will follow our example.” We must take positive steps, through the IWC. to ensure that they will do so. killing about 40% of the world catch. The ■Kila 0* rest of the whaling is done by Australia, ffl O " oWS* unde . r . slgned ’ \ haref ° r ® ca " , on * he N , ew Zaaland G^ e ± nment t 0 re J°' n the iWC - and send 3 representative to the „ r, | . , , .. wteAEig 27th Annual Meeting of the IWC, in London, June 23 - 28, 19/5. Brazil. Denmark. Iceland, Norway, KS -W -J ■ Panama, South Africa (members of the Project Jonah, International Whaling Commission), afid "" w t ** ® re ® n P® ace Foundation. n D . , . . . ’WS -..fl B Ecology Action (N.Z.) Inc. Chile. Peru. Portugal, and Spain (non- "1 O " Action for Environment. members). u. Friends of the Earth (N.Z.) Ltd. WgR’M (ft" N.Z. Antarctic Society (Canty.) Inc. In view of its profits and products it is NEj|L W © " Underwater Association. . , , . T . . ' .. . WlSe *1 z ■ Canterbury Underwater Club. a trivial industry. The destruction of an Wanganui Environmental Society Inc. entire order of highly evolved, intelligent, ABk > . B Hutt Valley Conservation Society. gentle beings is not. however, trivial. The 2 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ChCh.) whales can be saved — and in saving Beauty without Cruelty (N.Z.) Inc. them we can create a model of inter- * , Z }* c ? irar< ?P a Conservation Society, national act.on that w.ll demonstrate a ■ 5 J Un,v.r..ty of Canterbury B.olog.cal Soc.ety. s;r“ es ' and ,he res * ,he \£ : For further information contact: Project Jonah, Ecology Action Box 169 Christchurch.