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Moratorium on whaling

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Jo McVeaigh

In 1985 Greenpeace took one million signatures to the international whaling commission asking for a moratorium on whaling and a moratorium is a temporary ban. The following year in 1986 the moratorium came into effect, so that means there has been no commercial whaling allowed since 1986, so that is 21 years.


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