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Nations Move to Breach Whaling Ban

Greenies say talks "wave the white flag" to whale killers

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 22, 2009 3:46 PM CST

(Newser) – Secret government meetings could usher in a new era of legal commercial whaling for the first time in more than 20 years, the Independent reports. Twenty-eight whaling and anti-whaling nations have met twice to reach a compromise on the ban, which came after the near-extinction...   Read full story »

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