# data[].attributes.headline
                                                                                                      CONCLUSION

# data[].attributes.subject
                                                                                                      CONCLUSION

# data[].attributes.body
Whaling has is an issue that has been fortified and brought up again from time to time. Usually, people are more focused on the big issues, like, Global Warming, Pollution, Endangered Species, War, and so on; but what most people don't know is that not only in their country, but in the whole world, an animal is suffering because of something that people are doing to them, and because of it, it’s having a large toll on these animals ecosystems and environments. Whales have been hunted for hundreds of years, and over the years the mortality rate of these wonderful creatures have gone up, which is affecting the food webs and messing up the food chain and what animals thrive and which animals suffer. To keep whaling from happening, activist groups all over the world get together to try and stop whaling, but to do so, it is better to put up laws to prevent the hunting of these animals. Unfortunately, to do this the government has to put up laws against it and raise money to fund campaigns to raise awareness for them, and that costs hundreds of millions of dollars which not everyone can just pay. With the limiting amounts of laws put up by some countries, Japanese whalers try to find loopholes in the law, and say that what they’re doing is for scientific purposes, which ends up in them killings thousands of whales a year. The love for these animals have grown over the years, with tourism and advertising them, but unfortunately their reputation isn’t. Whaling is still a major issue that affects the animal, the environments, and its habitats, and still it is not well recognized. So what is possible to stop these whale killings from happening and harming our oceans ecosystems?

# data[].attributes.body
Stephen Nicol

# data[].attributes.body
“A greater abundance of whales also results in increased encounters with humans, and this can be positive—the massive growth in whale-based tourism, worth over $300 million to Australia every year—or negative, through interactions with infrastructure or shipping.”

# data[].attributes.body
The environment takes serious tolls on the actions of whalers and their continued harm of whales in the ocean throughout the decades and centuries even; Which implicates that various stakeholders such as politicians, whales, other animals that are affected by whales and even the ocean itself have all something in common: That the massive decrease in the whale’s population because of these killings are affecting them in significant ways too.

# data[].attributes.body
Emily Malgesini

# data[].attributes.body
“When it comes to the environment and the oceans ecosystem whales help regulate the flow of food by helping to maintain a stable food chain and ensuring that certain animal species do not overpopulate the ocean.”

# data[].attributes.body
Whaling is affecting the food chains and putting other animals in the ocean at risk of extinction.

# data[].attributes.body
Surma, S. and Pitcher T.J.

# data[].attributes.body
"The direct removal of carbon by whaling and fishing, coupled with the steepening of the size spectra mean that marine ecosystems now store less carbon than they once did."

# data[].attributes.body
The toll on the environment caused by whaling has created various problems with the trophic levels and the carbon in the air. It's destroying corals, damaging the food web, and putting animals in danger of extinction.

# data[].attributes.body
The Ocean’s ecosystem is greatly affected by whaling. The actions of whalers takes a significantly large toll on the environment, and because of the massive whale decrease in the ocean, it’s affecting the food chains and putting other animals in the ocean at risk of extinction.