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 by Staff Writers Cairo (AFP) May 31, 2018
A rare blue whale, the largest animal on Earth, has been sighted in the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba for the first time, Egypt's environment ministry said Thursday. It said on its Facebook page that Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy has instructed observation teams to track the whale and try to photograph it. The blue whale, which can grow up to 30 metres (100 feet) in length, is listed as "endangered" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. It was brought "to the brink of extinction" in the 1960s by intensive hunting, according to IUCN. Hunting has been prohibited by the International Whaling Commission, but the blue whale is threatened by "the declining availability of krill, its primary food source". mma/hc
Japan whale hunt killed 122 pregnant minkes Tokyo (AFP) May 31, 2018 Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call "gruesome and unnecessary". The four-month expedition in the Antarctic ended in March after the fleet killed 333 minke whales, according to a report submitted by Japanese authorities to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) last month. Of those, 122 were pregnant, according to the Japanese report, with dozens more immature whales ... read more
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