Whale sanctuary becomes law in Chile - Democratic Underground

Judi Lynn

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Wed Oct-15-08 04:31 PM
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Whale sanctuary becomes law in Chile

Whale sanctuary becomes law in Chile
Oct 15, 2008 12:09 PM (4 hrs ago) AP

SANTIAGO, Chile (Map, News) - Chile has turned all of its Pacific Ocean territorial waters into a whale sanctuary.

President Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday signed into law a measure that bans all whale hunting off Chile's 3,400-mile (5,500-kilometer) coast.

The law bans whale hunting both for commercial and scientific purposes.

Bachelet calls the law "a big step ahead in the protection of nature and a major legacy to future generartions."

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http://www.examiner.com/a-1639186~Whale_sanctuary_becomes_law_in_Chile.html

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texastoast

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Wed Oct-15-08 04:33 PM
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1. Wasn't Mitsubishi Heavy Industries down there trying to do something

there that was really damaging to the area for the whales? I forget the details.

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