According to the UK Green Party website the Green Party will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:
AR417 The Green Party opposes all lethal or harmful uses and treatment of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises).
In particular, whaling is a premeditated, deliberate and unnecessary cause of animal suffering. It is not justified even if supposedly undertaken as ‘scientific research’ or ‘subsistence hunting’ rather than for commercial profit. It endangers the survival of various cetacean species.
The Green Party condemns those governments who seek, through the International Whaling Commission and otherwise, to continue whaling. We call on all governments to outlaw whaling.
The Green Party is fundamentally opposed to all lethal and harmful commercial utilisation of cetaceans. This includes all whaling, so called scientific whaling and any whaling conducted under the cover-all of ‘aboriginal subsistence whaling’.
The Green Party opposes any move to end the current moratorium on commercial whaling. We call on all nations to declare the waters under their control havens from whaling, to provide sanctuary throughout those waters for cetaceans, and to co-operate in achieving global sanctuary for cetaceans in the longer term.
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on UK Green Party’s Cetaceans (Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises…) policies in the comments below?