[news] Whale Against Wargames

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

This week a US-Australian wargame exercise off the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, was halted... ominously by a white whale..._Migaloo_ – the only recorded white humpback whale in the world...forced a military retreat. Nearly 30,000 US and Australian military personnel, with 120 aircraft and 30 warships including nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines, were involved in Exercise Talisman Sabre...but the sonars used in this kind of warfare are known to kill whales and dolphins, as well as other fish and turtles.

  


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