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 Editorials | Environmental | May 2007 
Guatemala May Sway Whale Vote
 Prensa Latina
Guatemala - Although Guatemala is not a whaling country, its vote may be decisive for the future of these mammals, explained representatives of national and international ecologic organizations.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) will meet in Anchorage Alaska from May 28 to 31 to decide whether to approve or not the hunting of these cetaceans, informed Estuardo Mendoza of the Colectivo Madre Selva (Mother Jungle Collective Association).
The IWC is split equally in two blocs; one is headed by Japan and promotes hunting whales, while the other that calls for maintaining restrictions imposed for 20 years, Mendoza pointed out.
Guatemala is the only Latin American country that has still not made its decision known and will publicly announce it before the Anchorage meeting, said Milko Schvartzman of Greenpeace.
Viviana Monge of the World Society for the Protection of Animals explained that while only three countries hunt whales for their commerce about 90 take advantage of these mammals for sighting tourism.
"It is much more pleasurable to watch a whale for 70 years than to kill it in only one day," Monge added. |
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