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Huge Move: Iceland Will Ban Whale Hunting Officially by 2024

Huge Move: Iceland Will Ban Whale Hunting Officially by 2024

Whaling is an ancient practice and for a long period of time, indigenous communities have been hunting this huge marine mammal for food and other resources. However, somewhere around the 20th century, wasteful overhunting caused numerous whale species to come very close to extinction.  Much of the damage inflicted on […]