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Issue #19: Save the Whales...Again

Whaling 101
"Whaling is the deliberate slaughter of whales (any and all species). Commercial whaling began back in the 1900s and continued decimating whale populations for decades. Species of whales have a slow reproductive rate. So, once a particular whale species was no longer easy to find (because most had been killed) whalers moved on to another species. Read More

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