Save the Whale, Save the Southern Ocean reveals how seriously depleted several Southern Hemisphere great whale populations are, many of which are completely reliant on the Southern Ocean as the only place they feed. If whale populations were again decimated in the Southern Ocean, they may also disappear from the seas around many other countries in Africa, Oceania, the Pacific Islands and Latin America.
Whaling in the Southern Ocean has been banned for decades as a result of rampant commercial hunting in the last Century which brought several great whale species to the brink of extinction. In 1994, the IWC established the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. However since the global ban on commercial whaling came into effect, Japan has killed 9,409 whales in the Southern Ocean in the name of ‘scientific research'. For the detailed article and report go to.
Source: Gland, Switzerland, WWF
