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So far, whaling has only been possible through legal loopholes. If the Japanese were successful with their initiative, whale hunting would no longer be the exception, but the rule.
"Japan wants to convert the IWC into a whaling club. The member states must prevent this relapse", urges Stephan Lutter, marine mammal consultant at the environmental protection organization WWF. According to the Japanese Fisheries Authority, the IWC is divided: 48 member states are against whaling, 40 are in favor.
Only three countries still hunt whales. According to the environmental protection organization Pro Wildlife, the Japanese whaling fleet kills around 450 whales annually. The Japanese officially kill the marine mammals for research purposes, but the meat actually ends up in restaurants and supermarkets later.
Norway and Iceland have formally objected to the IWC moratorium of 1986 and are therefore not bound by the whaling ban. Norwegian fishermen kill between 600 and 700 whales per year, the Icelanders about 200. Some indigenous peoples in Russia, Greenland and the USA also go whaling on a small scale.
"If the whaling ban is overturned, other countries such as Russia and South Korea could also get involved again. That would be fatal"says Nicolas Entrup from the marine conservation organization OceanCare. "Commercial whaling is unsustainable and never will be. "Whales rarely breed and take a long time to grow. The populations often do not withstand industrial hunting."
The host country Brazil is one of the most determined opponents of commercial whaling. The South American country benefits from whale tourism and would like to set up a large sanctuary for whales in the South Atlantic.
That is why the Brazilians oppose the Japanese initiative with a counter-proposal. The "Florianópolis Declaration" should establish whale watching as the only justified commercial use of whales. The IWC is to transform itself from a whaling commission to a whale protection commission in order to bring the whale population back to the level before the industrial hunting in the oceans.
However, the Japanese have a tempting offer in their luggage to make the abolition of the moratorium appealing to supporters of the whaling ban: They want to replace the three-quarters majority required for far-reaching changes to the IWC rules with a simple majority. This would make it easier for the Brazilians to get to their sanctuary, but it would also make it easier to overturn the ban on commercial whale hunting.
"We are afraid that the opponents of whaling will get involved in this horse trade"says OceanCare expert Entrup. "That would be the wrong way."
If only it weren’t for this bickering!https://123helpme.me/community-service-essay/ In the new Ludwigshafen"crime scene" "You belong to Me" the catfight between Lena Odenthal, Johanna Stern and now also Mario Kopper took up about half of the plot – and thus damaged the actually quite touching case.
The animosities between "crime scene"-Commissioner Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) and her new colleague Stern (Lisa Bitter) have been occupying the Ludwigshafen-based company for a few episodes, and there is no end in sight. Unfortunately, because as a viewer you feel like you are in a strenuous and annoying kindergarten child war, which is getting more and more annoying from time to time.
The fact that Kopper (Andreas Hoppe) got involved in the Zoff didn’t make things any better. After all, the frustration about Lena’s move out and about the fact that she had egoistically left him sitting with all the work and the terrible cases broke out of what was still shaken by lovesickness. Can they repair this crack in their relationship again? The "crime scene" left it open. The fact that Kopper simply drove away Lena, who ran after him, in the end does not give a good indication.
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However, this also means that the audience has to be prepared for the fact that at least one further case will be overlaid by the interpersonal problems of their colleagues, which seem unprofessional. Not a very tempting idea.
Marie’s fate goes to the heart
Had "You belong to Me" actually quite an interesting and heartfelt story to offer. The fate of the up-and-coming prima ballerina Marie Rainders (very worth seeing in retrospect: Elisa Afie Agbaglah), who was raped and beaten into a coma by two young men (Luca Riemenschneider and Vladimir Burlakov), and the grief of her mother Birte (moving: Sandra Nedeleff) were told vividly and did not leave the viewer indifferent.
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The case itself – Marie’s tormentors were murdered one after the other – remained manageable. It was easy to figure out who the murderer had to be. Mainly because the investigators tried hard to completely ignore an obvious suspect. Anyone who watches crime novels more often does not miss it. At least he made it "crime scene" nevertheless, not to become so obvious that the puzzling was completely spoiled.
Stereotyped figures
However, the clichés and stereotypes with which the "crime scene" unfortunately not saved. Especially when it came to Marie’s friend Yago Torres (Matthias Wiedenhöfer), the criminally convicted gangster rapper with tattoos, false gold teeth and a soft core. But also the bodybuilders who swallow anabolic steroids, the blonde dumbass from the gym receptionist and Mario Koppers "typically Italian" Innkeepers were too much on the pattern.
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Juneau (dpa) – Resourceful sperm whales dispute the prey for fishermen in the Gulf of Alaska in front of their noses: for many years they have been plundering huge amounts of fish there from the long suspension lines with up to 4000 hooks.
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The typical noises of the cutters when hauling in the lines are like a kind of food gong for the giant marine mammals. Often the sound even attracts a whole group of sperm whales, which feed the fish, push to the surface and chase boats. Marine researchers and fishermen are now working together to limit the damage.
The sperm whale’s unusual behavior began more than two decades ago. At that time, the deadlines for catching coalfish (Black Cod / Anoplopoma fimbria) in Alaska were changed – from 10 days a year without a quantity limit to eight months with a quota. And the sperm whales quickly learned that their food – hanging on a horizontal line at a depth of 700 to 1100 meters – was served almost three quarters of the year to bite into.
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"The most experienced whales found that they can bite the line and shake it – just like shaking apples off a tree"said Aaron Thode, a marine mammal expert with the Scripps Institute for Oceanography in California, in an interview. He observed the animals with underwater cameras: Since coalfish fall off the line with their soft mouths, the whales usually avoid injuring themselves with the hooks. Nevertheless, they are threatened with injuries from boats and lines here and there.
Such a whale attack can mean losses of more than 1,000 US dollars per day and per ship for the fishermen – because they often lose a quarter, sometimes even 100 percent of their catch, complains the Council for Fisheries Management in the North Pacific. That is why the fishermen have been working together with marine researchers from the environmental agency NOAA in the Seaswap project since 2003 to solve the problem – a collaboration that is rare in this form.
Sperm whales, one of the endangered animal species and largely protected by the whaling moratorium, are still unknown in many respects: The largest predators on earth can be over 20 meters long. You can easily dive 1500 meters, deeper than any other whale. They can stay under water for up to 100 minutes and only reappear at a great distance. The meaning of the mighty Spermaceti organ in their beefy heads is still unclear – does the tough, sperm-like mass in it serve as a battering ram? Or for echosounder location?
First, the researchers wanted to find out what exactly attracts the whales. "It wasn’t just any piece of equipment, it was the way the fishermen drove the boats", reports Thode. They drove a test without a catch, in which the boat accelerated, stopped and created corresponding air bubbles, as when the line was being drawn in: "In less than ten minutes we had twelve-meter whales all around our boat." When the sea is calm, the animals can still hear their food gong at a distance of more than 25 kilometers.
Plan A, the sperm whales with an acoustic "Food gong buoy" luring them away from the fishing boats and tricking them then failed. The animals quickly realized that there was nothing to be got from the buoy and stayed away.
Plan B to fish in whale-free waters is now having an effect: the researchers provided some animals with tracking devices and a web app is now showing where the whales are frolicking. So the boats can head for other fishing grounds. In addition, the fishermen report individual whale sightings to a control center, which forwards the information to everyone.
In 2017, Alaska’s Fisheries Council approved a new method to catch coalfish in baskets similar to lobsters – and thus significantly safer for whales. However, the method is too expensive for many fishermen. For the time being, the Alaskan whale avoidance network remains the best way to avoid the smart sperm whales. Nevertheless, five percent of the annual catch quota ends up in Moby Dick’s stomach.
The Antarctic has seen unprecedented plant growth over the past few decades. Because of climate change, the white continent is getting greener, according to one in the US journal "Current Biology" published study.
The temperature rise has one "dramatic impact" on the growth of moss on the shores of the Antarctic Ocean, said co-author Matt Amesbury of Exeter University in England.
Consequences of climate change
"If this continues, and because of the growing area of ice-free land as a result of the glacier retreat, Antarctica will be greener in the future"the researcher added. Amesbury and his colleagues analyzed five different soil samples from layers of moss that they had taken at longer intervals over an area stretching over 640 kilometers on Elephant Island, Ardley Island and Green Island. The area has the thickest and oldest layers of moss in the Antarctic, only 0.3 percent of which has vegetation.
The samples provided the researchers with insights into the development of the climate and plant growth over the past 150 years. The research showed that growth has accelerated significantly over the past 50 years.
Antarctica is one of the regions most affected by global warming: temperatures there have risen by 0.5 degrees Celsius per decade since the 1950s. Precipitation and wind have also increased.
The ecosystems are changing increasingly
The head of the study, Dan Charman from the University of Exeter, anticipates that the ecosystems in Antarctica will change rapidly if the temperature continues to rise. "That will change the biology and the landscape of this unique region", added Charman.