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//About Me// My name is Sara and I live in a town somewhere, some place. Some of the things I like to do are playing guitar, listening to music really softly and singing in the shower. Randomly running and walking, dancing badly, taking weird photos, reading magazines, and animals are all pretty good as well.

Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Hangover, Step Brothers, Hot Rod are the best movies ever made.







> > > > > > > > > **1. Why do they do it?** > For food, oil, ambegris and other by-products. > Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales. Ambergris has a peculiar sweet earthy oudour. One of the main uses of it was as a fixative in perfumes > > **2. Could whaling cause whales to become extinct?** > For some species it is heading in that direction. The most endangered, in most danger of extiction are -
 * A record three year cruise in the 19th century killed fewer than one hundred whales.
 * In 1933 almost 30,000 whales were killed, yielding 2.5 million barrels of whale oil.
 * By 1967 60,000 were killed, but they yielded only 1.5 million barrels of oil--because the larger species, e.g., Blues and Fins, had been hunted virtually to extinction.
 * North Atlantic right whale
 * Western Pacific grey whale
 * Bowhead
 * Narwhal
 * Cook Inlet beluga whales

3. What have we done to try and stop it?



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There are many organisations, blogs and charities trying to combat whaling. One of the most notable organisations trying to stop whaling, is Greenpeace. Greenpeace tries to stop Japanese whaling in many different ways, some of the things they do include - -Going out into the ocean to try and damage and stop whaling ships from capturing any whales -Approaching the Japanese government, hoping to make an agreement -and of course, Protesting

Below is one of the projects Greenpeace is currently working on - With the historic change of government in Japan, Greenpeace is intensifying its efforts to bring whaling to an end. The new Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has already shown he is more concerned about Japan's international reputation than his predecessors. Join over 140,000 people and send the new Prime Minister your Origami Whale, asking him to end the corrupt whaling industry once and for all.

The primary species hunted are the common minke whale and Antarctic minke whale
 * 4. Which breed of whale is the most hunted?**



Japan has slaughtered over 6,000 whales since commercial whaling was banned in 1986. The meat and other products obtained from this 'research' is sold as before.
 * 5. How many whales are killed per year?**

The Australian Whale Sanctuary has been established to protect all whales and dolphins found in Australian waters. The Australian Whale Sanctuary is in the Commonwealth marine area, beyond the coastal waters of each state and the Northern Territory. It includes all of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The Australian EEZ generally extends to 200 nautical miles (approximately 370 kilometres) from the coast, but extends further in some areas to cover offshore territorial waters and islands. The Australian EEZ includes the waters around Australia's external territories, such as Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Norfolk, Heard and Macdonald island.
 * 6. Where are there sancturies?** [|sanctuary]



** 7. __What is the history of whaling?__ ** Whaling has been going on for a long time (since prehistoric times) and many things have changed since then, the way they hunt, what they hunt with and what they do with the whale. One method of whaling was to frighten them to the shore so they would beach them selves so they can then kill them. Another method is to tie a semi floating object like a wooden drum to them to tire them so they were easier to kill. We are lucky none of these methods are still used today.

__**​9.Does the whaling effect the enviroment around it?**__ Whaling has a big impact on the enviroment, the more the whales get hunted the more the numbers go down, so that means a bigger risk of exstinction which is not just bad for the whales it effects the whole food chain and with the whole food chain corrupted the more chance of of extinction of other animals. So it does affect the environment around it.

__10.What can we do to help?__ Just like the people at greenpeace you can do your part protesting to get the awarness up, but the littlest things you do can help, like talking to people about it, or donating money to greenpeace can help in the biggest way.

References - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Whaling** [|www.greenpeace.org] [|www.bigvolcano.com.au/human/]**whaling** [|www.environment.gov.au/coasts/species]