Photo: Whaling Commission Renews Most Aboriginal Hunting Quotas



Eskimo whalers struggle to clear an opening in the Alaskan ice to bring a bowhead whale onto solid ground.

The International Whaling Commission recently approved five-year extensions to hunting quotas for native peoples in Russia, Alaska, and the Caribbean, but a proposed aboriginal whaling expansion in Greenland remains a point of contention.

Photograph by Richard Olsenius/National Geographic/Getty Images


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