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IWC Compromise Would Allow Commercial Whaling listen

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Tags: st. pete beach, International Whaling Commission, Whaling, Greenpeace, Pew Environmental Group

The International Whaling Commission is meeting in St. Pete Beach this week to discuss a possible lift of its 1986 ban on commercial whaling. Three of the delegation’s eighty-eight member nations continue to take whales using what some call loopholes in IWC policy. The proposed move has drawn fire from conservationists, and sparked a beach front protest.

Today the IWC began discussions on a compromise that would bring Japan, Iceland, and Norway into compliance by allowing them to whale, ev...

Resident saves turtles for 30 years

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Bruno Falkenstein, a longtime volunteer, was awarded the citizen of the year by the City of St. Pete Beach for his commitment of looking after and nurturing sea turtles.