The more we learn about the whales that roam our ocean depths, the more marvellous and complex these creatures are shown to be. Which is what makes it such a travesty that nearly 25 years after we said goodbye to commercial whaling, it looks set to start again.

If the recent meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Morocco goes according to plan, the 1986 moratorium which outlawed the hunting of great whales will be overturned and we will take a giant leap back to the ecological dark ages.

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