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The concern throughout the world in 1988 for those three whales that were locked
The concern throughout the world in 1988 for those three whales that were locked
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2023-12-11
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The concern throughout the world in 1988 for those three whales that were locked in the Arctic ice was dramatic proof that whales, several species of which face extinction, have become subjects of considerable sympathy.
These are the recorded voices of whales. These monstrous creatures have been trumpeting their songs, one to another, in the world’s Oceans since the dawn of time, while overhead, great empires and civilizations have come and gone. Now, their time of decline has .come. It began a long time ago.
Four-thousand-year-old rock carvings show that the people who lived in what is now Norway were probably the first to seek out and kill whales in the sea. By around 890 AD, 3,000 years later, the practice had spread to the Basque people of France and Spain, who hunted whales from boats in the Bay of Biscay. In the centuries that followed, Whaling became an important industry in Denmark, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and, finally, in what would become America.
Whaling went into dramatic decline, beginning around 1900. Today, whales are hunted commercially only by Norway, Iceland and Japan. The world’s fascination with them, however, is at an all-time high, because so few of them are left, given their tragic history.
Richard Ellis writes about whales, takes pictures of whales in the open sea, and sketches whales stranded on the beach. He says it’s a 20-year obsession that began in the mid-1960s, when he designed a model of a great blue for the Museum of Natural History in New York "As I began to do the research, I realized that nobody knew anything about whales. And I couldn’t really find any pictures of what they looked like: all I could find was pictures of dead whales. And I became very excited at the prospect of doing what seemed to be original research on something that was so peculiar, which was the largest animal that has ever lived on earth."
So large, he discovered that the largest dinosaur weighed only half as much as the female blue whale. As he continued his research, he boarded scientific vessels, dove with whales in the Pacific, and even watched whales die at the hands of modern explosive-tipped harpoons. His sketches appeared in magazines and encyclopedias and at the center of what was then the beginning of a movement to save the whales.
"I was one of those people who used to stand on street comers and ask for people to sign petitions, which at that time were directed towards the Japanese and the Soviets. Because in that period of time, late 60s and early 70s, the Japanese and the Soviets were killing tens of thousands of sperm, particularly in the North Pacific. And we thought that getting the world’s opinion on paper would make them say, ’Oh look, all these people don’t like what we are doing. We will stop.’ Well, of course, they didn’t stop."
Not at first, commercial whaling peaked in the mid-1960s, with more than 60,000 whales killed each year. The International Whaling Commission, a group of member nations aimed at regulating the industry, began to make recommendations to end commercial whaling entirely. Why kill whales for soap, or fuel or paints and varnishes, even margarine, if we had substitutes for all those products? The seemingly senseless slaughter focused the world’s attention on the whale and consequently the International Whaling Commission or IWC.
"And since it’s said nowhere in the constitution of the IWC that you had to be whaling nation to join, you have countries like Kenya and the Seychelles. Switzerland is a member of the 1WC, a country not known for its whaling history. Countries joined because they felt that this was something that needed to be done. "
By 1986, the Commission had passed a moratorium on commercial whaling. But since the organization had no enforcement powers, it could and can not impose sanctions on violators. Only a few nations, Japan, Iceland, and Norway, continue to hunt whales commercially.
Richard Ellis says there is something magical about this animal caught in the net of life and time, and we must continue to fight to preserve it, because in the end we are really protecting a small part of ourselves and our earth. [br] Richard Ellis is best described as a whale
选项
A、writer.
B、photographer.
C、researcher.
D、hunter.
答案
C
解析
第5段第1句提到Richard Ellis撰写关于鲸鱼的文章,拍摄鲸鱼的照片等;但从第5段第3句中的“As I began to do the research”和第6段第2句中的“As he continued his research”等内容可知Richard Ellis是鲸鱼研究员,而写作和拍摄照片只是其研究工作的一部分,因此应选C。
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