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Whale-Watching Report: Whales More Valuable Alive Than Dead

source: TreeHugger.com | Jul 14, 08 | submitted by Pat Coate

Santiago, Chile - From origami whale campaigns to Mr. Splashy Pants, it's pretty obvious that those big, intelligent and lovable cetaceans are massively popular.

And according to a recent report focusing on the phenomenal growth of whale-watching in Latin America, watching whales (as opposed to killing them) could have a much greater economic benefit to local communities and governments worldwide.


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"The key is that whale watching is done in a cautious way: that the government always has the authority to ban the practice, and that the providers of the services are more committed to conservation than to their own business."
- Ricardo Orri, Argentine whale tour operator
 

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