Whaling in Madagascar is currently banned on a commercial level in compliance with sanctuary regulations. Despite erratic weather conditions, there is...
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distributed by 20th Century Fox. A spin-off of the Madagascar franchise, and the fourth film overall in the series, the film was directed by series director...
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Commercial whaling in the United States dates to the 17th century in New England. The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent...
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Omura's whale (category Mammals described in 2003)
isolation of the Madagascar Omura's whale (Balaenoptera omurai) population". Paper SC/67B/NH/09 Presented to the International Whaling Commission Scientific...
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MV Brigitte Bardot (category Ships built in England)
acquired the $4 million vessel for its 2010–11 campaign against Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and renamed her the MV Gojira...
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Whale conservation (redirect from Whaling controversy)
the conservation of whales. Prior to the setting up of the IWC in 1946, unregulated whaling had depleted a number of whale populations to a significant extent...
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Whale meat (section Anti-whaling efforts)
compared to farmed livestock. Commercial whaling, which has faced opposition for decades, continues today in very few countries (mainly Iceland, Japan...
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Commercial whaling in Britain began late in the 16th century and continued after the 1801 formation of the United Kingdom and intermittently until the...
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Humpback whale (category Mammals described in 1781)
humpback whales. Like other large whales, the humpback was a target for the whaling industry. Humans once hunted the species to the brink of extinction; its...
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Southern right whale (category Mammals described in 1822)
as one, two, three or four species, either in a single genus or in two separate genera. In the early whaling days, they were all thought to be a single...
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Blue whale (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
of extinction by whalers until the International Whaling Commission banned all blue whale hunting in 1966. The International Union for Conservation of...
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Kerguelen Islands (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2018)
miles) from Madagascar. The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands, Amsterdam and Saint Paul islands, and France's Scattered Islands in the Indian...
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were being threatened, the International Whaling Commission instituted a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982. Although ambergris is not harvested...
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disasters in the 18th century List of maritime disasters in the 19th century List of maritime disasters in the 20th century List of maritime disasters in World...
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Austronesian peoples (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that...
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Norwegian South Africans (redirect from South Africans in Norway)
people also moved to South Africa, Madagascar, Angola, and Mozambique. The number of Norwegians in the whole of Africa in 1920 was 998. The number rose to...
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Moby Dick (1956 film) (category Films shot in Wales)
in the New England town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to find work on a whaling ship. Due to a shortage of local lodgings, he is forced to share his room...
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Holocene extinction (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2022)
arrival of Europeans in the South Pacific in the 18th century, lost much of its endemic avifauna when it became a whaling station in the early 19th century...
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Marine mammal (section In captivity)
of Whaling which controlled commercial, scientific and subsistence whaling. The Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea, enforced in 1991...
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island country east of the African continent located in the Sea of Zanj due north of Madagascar, with Antsiranana as its nearest foreign city. Seychelles...
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Melon-headed whale (category Mammals described in 1846)
small cetaceans in fisheries in Palawan, central Visayas and northern Mindanao in the Philippines". Report of the International Whaling Commission. 15:...
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Canada (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
the Basque and Portuguese establish seasonal whaling and fishing outposts along the Atlantic coast. In general, early settlements during the Age of Discovery...
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Crozet Islands (section In popular culture)
the coast. Subsequently, whaling was the main activity around the islands, especially by the whalers from Massachusetts. In 1841, there were a dozen whaleships...
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Prince Edward Islands (category All Wikipedia articles written in South African English)
area saw heavy sealing and whaling operations in the nineteenth century and continued to be subject to mass illegal whaling until the 1970s, with the Soviet...
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recover from whaling, this is increasing sexual selection pressure (i.e., lower frequency indicates larger body size). A fin whale song Recorded in the Atlantic...
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products, as e.g. animal glue, tendons, casings or in historical times ambra and baleen provided by whaling. With regard to pharmacy ingredients and legal...
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Japan (redirect from Public infrastructure in Japan)
fishing is leading to depletion in fish stocks such as tuna. Japan has sparked controversy by supporting commercial whaling. Japan has a large industrial...
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(rat) - $623,722,818 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) (various) - $603,900,354 Puss in Boots (2011) (cat) - $554,987,477 Madagascar (2005) (various) -...
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Megalodon (category Fossil taxa described in 1835)
Pyenson, N. D. (2006). "Evolutionary Patterns in Cetacea: Fishing Up Prey Size through Deep Time". Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems. University of California...
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Outrigger boat (section Madagascar)
vessels prevalent in the Pacific Islands and Madagascar, to the double-outrigger vessels (trimarans) prevalent in Island Southeast Asia. They are traditionally...
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