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Oceans: A whale of a time

Currently under discussion in Agadir, the ban on whaling continues to divide the international community. Die Welt argues that the ironclad protection demanded for the cetaceans by most European countries is evidence of a quasi-religious conception of ecology.

22 June 2010
18 Die Welt Berlin

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