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This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Shirley Griffith.

And I’m Christopher Crui. Today, we tell about whales. Some people want

to hunt the animals, while others simply enjoy watching them in the wild. We tell

about a plan for an American aquarium to import beluga whales from Russia. And

we talk about a whale that could make human-like sounds.

Environmental activists in South Korea are condemning a government plan to

hunt endangered whales for scientific rearch. They believe the plan is part of an

effort to re-start commercial whaling activities. Such activities are banned in many

International Whaling Commission has yet to make a decision on the

South Korean plan.

The organization banned commercial whaling in 1986 becau of concerns

about the survival of whale species. But now, some South Korean fishermen say

they are facing a threat from minke whales. They say the animals are eating what

would have been their catch.

The plan was immediately condemned by anti-whaling nations. Wildlife

activists also criticized the proposal. Han Jeong-hee works in Seoul for the

environmental group Greenpeace.

“It’s really regretful to hear that Korean government is, like, considering

conducting scientific whaling. Scientific whaling is just, like, thinly-disguid

commercial whaling. And, you know, we are of cour against all commercial

whaling. Japan’s the only country which is doing scientific whaling at the

moment and Korea is just trying to follow that.”

Korea has a long history of whaling. Cave paintings found on the south coast

show images of whale hunts. But such hunts and the u of whale meat as food did

not really become popular until late in the nineteenth century.

Every year, the South Korean town of Ulsan holds an event that re-creates

tho whaling expeditions. Visitors are urged to eat at local restaurants that rve

whale meat.

South Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries says the goal of the plan

is to help fishermen. It notes that limited whaling for scientific rearch is

permitted under the commercial whaling ban. Japan has continued hunting whales

under this exception.

Critics of whaling do not believe claims by Japan that its whaling activities are

for scientific rearch. They note that whale meat from the hundreds of whales

killed in the hunt is sold to the Japane public.