Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers

FatLittleMonkey writes "Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd is using aerial drones to find and track factory ships used by Japanese whalers. The group claims the tactic shortened the Japanese whaling season last year by a month, saving 200 whales, and this year they've spotted the factory ship even earlier."

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Re:Looks like drones aren't just for governments.

[msobkow]

Isn't there an international standard of a 200 mile influence from a nation's shores, subject to negotiation of overlapping districts?

Regardless, the Japanese claims of "scientific research" seem like a flimsy excuse for the slaughter. Whales are intelligent, emotional creatures like dolphins. They communicate over vast distances. Just because they're not human doesn't mean we should be slaughtering them any more than we should primates.

They're too far up the evolutionary chain to be treated as common food animals.