Hi to one and all...I forgot to add in my previous post a great piece of news...if anybody here signed the petition I put up a few weeks back to ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop the killing of the 40 humpback whales, which the Japanese scientists said they required for research, well it worked...it is reported today that, due to international pressure, no humpback whales will be killed in the next one to two years...so, with a bit of good fortune, we might turn that it into never again...sadly a thousand minky and fin whales are going to be hunted down and killed...again it was said.. for scientific research...the Japanese spokesperson said they needed that many to study the ears of the whales to see why they exist?? and one or two weren't enough to establish that...I would have thought a thousand was definitely overkill and forty humpbacks equally so considering their size and how long they live for...harpooning them just to find out why they exist seems utterly barbaric and bizarre...unfortunately, the Japanese do not comprehend our attachment to the whales, so do not feel the same about killing them.
That's it...forty humpback whales can now travel the high seas in safety...at least for the time being...thanks to everybody who did sign it and big hugs to one and all...