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Show Whales Face Extinction So many whales are now being killed off the coasts of South Africa that oppeals have been made to the Union government to restrict their taking tak-ing to the larger size males. A total of 700 whales In a year were killed by companies operating out of South African ports and in the nearby waters. wa-ters. Whales are becoming scarcer and smaller as a result of unrestricted unrestrict-ed slaughter and It Is now proposed to prohibit the killing of females and of all whales below a certain size, dependent de-pendent on the species. |