GVPT 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Critically Endangered, Margarine, Least-Concern Species
1 Dec 2018
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Whaling countries: historically, the following nations have had whaling industries, canada, greenland, united states, various caribbean nations. Indonesia: aotearoa/new zealand, britain, chile, various indigenous peoples also practice whaling as subsistence. Present conservation statuses: critically endangered, blue whale (antarctic, gray whale (northwest pacific, endangered, blue whale, fin whale, north pacific right whale, north atlantic right whale, sei whale, vulnerable, blue whale (atlantic, sperm whale. Lower risk: blue whale (north pacific, bowhead whale, gray whale (northeast pacific, southern right whale, beluga. Least concern: southern bottlenose whale, bowhead whale, humpback whale, melon-head whale, gray whale. Iwc mandate to set schedules for quotas: scientific advisory committee, little monitoring or enforcement capacity. Legitimate uncertainty on whale stocks; role of dubious science: science subordinate to politics, higher quotas than recommended in the 1950s and 1960s, decisions not made on a species-by-species basis. Emphasis on normative arguments: growth of the environmental movement in the 1960s, save the whales campaign, whales become iconic.
