World Whale Day
This day was launched in 1986 when moratorium on whale’s cropping having entered by International Whaling Commission came into effect.
The moratorium has been acting up to now and it means that in the whole world whaling as well as whale butchery business is forbidden. Nowadays whale trading is allowed only for satisfaction of indigenous population needs (the so-called aboriginal deal) and withdrawal of whales for scientific purposes or due to special permission of the governments – members of International Whaling Commission.
In the first instance, Whale Day is to draw attention of society, representatives of authority and entire humankind to the issues of protection of this unique kind of animals and, in total, all the marine mammals – up to now on our planet only 119 kinds have been reserved.
Intensive and ruthless extirpation of marine mammals, particularly, whales, going on for more than two hundred years, has a disastrous influence on their number – many representatives of these animals have appeared at the edge of disappearance. However, they are the most sensitive indicators of planet maritime system state and important track in the food chains of global ocean, creating biological cycle of matter stability in ecological system. That is why reduction of number of whales and other marine animals is leading to the disturbance of biological balance in the naval ecosystems. Thus, each kind, which disappears, remains an irreplaceable loss: everything having immerged in wildlife passes away forever.
Despite the fact that moratorium on whale trading has functioned currently and laws of most countries have banned extraction of whales, destruction of these animals is not stopped. Besides that, a human being influences over nature altering it with his activity which is, unfortunately, not always sensible. For example, fishing gears inflict great losses to marine mammals; oceans contamination with crude production causes the same effect explained by expansion of petroleum development geography at the sea shelve.
