Recently, rescuers from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in British Columbia, Canada, worked for four days to free a humpback whale that had become entangled in a fishing net. The 10-meter-long adult whale had been entangled for months without being able to feed properly, and suffered multiple injuries to its body.
The Marine Mammal Center, an international organization, estimates that around 300,000 cetaceans die each year worldwide from entanglement in discarded fishing nets and garbage. Not only is this an unintentional hazard, but there are also “intentional” hazards, namely hunting and killing, of which Japan is the world’s top killer of whales, followed by Norway and Iceland. The contrast is too great! Although the killing of whales can be understood as the needs of the country and the people, but the destruction of the ecological balance, in fact, is a global harm, but also digging their own graves.
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