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Henry Maurice at the Zoological Society of London, ca. 1944. Courtesy of Lafayette Photography. Remington Kellogg addresses the delegates negotiating the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, 1946. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7165, Box 10, Folder 4. The British delegation signs the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling,1946. Neil Mackintosh is on the far left, Alban Dobson on the far right. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7165, Box 10, Folder 4. Lt. Col. Hubert Schenck, of the Supreme Command for the Allied Powers’ Natural Resources Section, addresses the crew of the Nisshin Maru, 1948. Hubert Gregory Schenck Papers, Photo Envelope BBB, Hoover Institution Archives. The launching of the Nisshin Maru, 1948. Note the large crowd. Hubert Gregory Schenck Papers, Photo Album mZZ, Hoover Institution Archives. Pulling a whale up the stern slipway of the Nisshin Maru, 1948. Hubert Gregory Schenck Papers, Photo Album fM, Hoover Institution Archives. The Olympic Challenger showing the stern slipway, ca. 1950. Hvalfangstmuseet, Sandefjord, Norway. Ambassador Frank Corner of New Zealand (right) with UN General-Secretary U Thant (left), 1966. UN Photo Library, 220698. Maurice Strong, chairman of the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, addresses the “Whale Celebration,” with the cameras rolling, 1972. Yutaka Nagata, UN Photo Library, 186101. Paul Watson kneels on a sperm whale calf killed by Soviet whalers, with the Phyllis Cormack in the background, 1975. Rex Weyler/Greenpeace GP01CQU. Ray Gambell, secretary of the International Whaling Commission (seated on the left), receives petitions from the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, 1979. Courtesy of People’s Trust for Endangered Species. A giant inflatable whale and a fitness instructor celebrate Greenpeace’s tenth anniversary, 1981. Dan Scott/Vancouver Sun. Traditional Inuit whaling equipment, early twentieth century. New Bedford Whaling Museum, Photo 2000.100.200.115. Whaling on the north coast of Alaska in the early twenty-first century. Copyright Hugh Rose/AccentAlaska.com. A common way for people to encounter whales today: a humpback whale calf breaches off the coast of New Hampshire, 2012. Courtesy of Len Medlock. ...

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