Although containing some puzzling figures on whale numbers and claimed impacts on fisheries, this Korea Times\/Yeonhap News article at least contains one decision that (if confirmed) can actually be celebrated by the conservation community:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/nation\/2012\/07\/117_115346.html<\/a><\/p>\n Great work by those who lobbied against the re-start of legally sanctioned killing of whales in Korean waters by expressing their genuine, and science-based concerns (including as it happens, the IUCN: see http:\/\/cmsdata.iucn.org\/downloads\/iucn_position_on_scientific_whaling_in_korea_13_july_2012.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n Now, much more needs to be done to reduce so-called accidental bycatch, and to reduce the ease with which whale flesh can be bought in some markets and restaurants….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although containing some puzzling figures on whale numbers and claimed impacts on fisheries, this Korea Times\/Yeonhap News article at least contains one decision that (if confirmed) can actually be celebrated by the conservation community: http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/nation\/2012\/07\/117_115346.html Great work by those who … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[336,337,338],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","tag-korea-times","tag-whale-killing","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}