The most endangered of whale species
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- Tiranga School
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Which whale is your number one priority at the moment?
- Jo McVeaigh
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We work a lot on the whaling that happens around the Antarctica and that is because it’s the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and it was declared a whale sanctuary in 1994. And we believe that because it’s a whale sanctuary, whale hunting shouldn't happen there. So we focus a lot…..so that is a priority for us. It is also a priority because those whales that spend the summer around Antarctica spend their winter around the Pacific and they are really important for the economy around the Pacific. Like a lot of those Pacific countries, like Tonga in particular, have a big whale watching industry and that is really important to them. If the whales that are hunted in the Antarctica all come from the same area in the Pacific, it could do some really serious damage to some of the Pacific populations.