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January 20th, 2006

Whale in London

BBC NEWS | England | London | Whale spotted in central London

Good heavens.

Update: Londoners learn how to rescue a whale. Though I saw Terry Nutkins on the television who said that if anything is going to harm the whale it is the number of boats following it.

If you really want to help ‘save the whale’ you could do worse than looking at the Save the Whales – 10 Ways You Can Help Marine Life Every Day page.

In fact, did you know that Norway will kill 1,052 whales in 2006 (30% more than last year), whilst Japan will kill nearly that number. All in the name of ‘research’ apparently. Greenpeace has been attempt to disrupt Japanese whaling but has had to pull out owing to lack of resources.

As far as I can understand from various internet searches Japan wants to resume commercial whaling. Japans own foreign policy website attempts to justify it’s ‘research’ but what they say seems to be entirely at odds with what they are doing.

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3 Responses to “Whale in London”


  1. fishsoup says:

    There have been concerns in our (very grown-up and interested in current affairs) office, that it is in fact a terrorist whale setting off for the Houses of Parliament.
    Osama Fin Laden, anyone?

    January 20th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
  2. Nefertiki says:

    Thanks for this. I enjoyed looking at (and listening to) the “10 Ways You Can ….” site and sent links to friends who are educators and people who love whales.

    If that is a terrorist whale in London do you think that is why they are trying to escort it out of the city? I do hope it doesn’t blow itself, and others, up.

    January 21st, 2006 at 4:34 pm
  3. Jack the Lass says:

    RIP the whale, who didn’t survive the rescue attempt :(

    January 21st, 2006 at 9:40 pm