Japan Whalers Return from Antarctic Hunt after Killing more than 333 Whales: "Tokyo says the slaughter is necessary for in-depth knowledge of whale behaviour and biology, but makes no secret of the whales killed in the hunts often end up on dinner plates." https://t.co/C0gPWb0yvq
The current Japanese research whaling program calls for killing 4,000 whales over a 12 year period, from 2015-2027. Apparently their researchers didn’t learn enough from killing 10,710 whales under their special-permit whaling programs (JARPA & JARPA-II) that ran from 1987-2014.
Lethal whale research is outdated as there are nonlethal methodologies which can be used to collect the same data that are highly advanced & readily available. There is no scientific justification for Japan to continue killing 333 Minke Whales every year in the Antarctic Ocean.
#HubbleFriday Hubble has plucked out an underlying population of infant stars embedded in the nebula NGC346 that are still forming from gravitationally collapsing gas clouds. They haven't yet ignited their hydrogen fuel to sustain nuclear fusion: https://t.co/hcTDYotnaB