CAPE TOWN, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a new global anti-whaling campaign on Thursday, which seeks to ban all whaling. "What makes it even worse is the brutality (of whale hunting)," said Tutu, a Nobel peace laureate, at the launch. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), which backs the campaign, says whales are usually hunted with grenade-tipped harpoons that explode inside the animal. The world imposed a moratorium on all whale hunts in 1986 after many species were driven towards extinction by decades of exploitation for meat, oil and whalebone. Japan, Norway and Iceland still hunt minke whales, arguing they are plentiful. The campaign has other high profile supporters including British actor Pierce Brosnan. (Reporting by Wendell Roelf)
This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite shows the Los Angeles metropolitan area on November 16, 2008 and released by NASA November 17. Places where ...
