What are people doing to stop whale killings?

Answer 1

The International Whaling Commission is a group of 88 nations whose original goal was to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry." However, many of these nations have decided to put emphasis on conserving whale populations without any goal of whaling.

The IWC made a decision to ban commercial whaling completely as of 1986. In 1994, the IWC also made the decision to make the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, an area of 50 million square kilometers surrounding Antarctica. However, some nations continue whaling anyway, even in the whale sanctuary!

The Inuit in Canada, Greenland, and the United States, are allowed to hunt whales for their own use (it is an important part of their diet), but not to sell the meat, and this is regulated. In Indonesia, there are a couple of villages that also rely on whaling, but it is on a small scale. However, Japan, Norway, Iceland continue commercial whaling. Japan is the worst, however, taking their whale catch from the whale sanctuary. Their excuse is that it is for scientific research, although anti-whaling countries believe that it is simply a disguise for commercial whaling.

There is also a group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, funded by Bob Barker and founded by Paul Watson, actually send ships and crew to physically fight the Japanese whalers and disable their ships and equipment (they do not kill anyone, though). Some people call their actions violent, whereas others support them. The Sea Shepherds believe that the IWC and other organizations are unable or unwilling to take necessary action to stop whaling that is significantly harming whale populations. Therefor, they consider it necessary to take physical, aggressive action against the whalers.

Answer 2

People are stopped from killing dugongs by people telling sailors to sail slowly on dugong-inhabited water so as not to run over them. Also, sometimes people charge those who illegally hunt dugongs.

Answer 3

Absolutely nothing the only thing against it is Greenpeace but the Japanese hate them and ram their boats