Underreported: The Whaling Moratorium

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 9, 2010

Philip Hoare, author of The Whale: in Search of the Giants of the Sea , discusses this month’s International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco. On the agenda is a repeal of the 1986 moratorium which outlawed the hunting of great whales.

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