Response to "Protect the whales off Australia"

According to “Protect the whales off Australia”, Japan will send this year’s whalers bound for Southern Ocean, Australia in less than a week. The aim of the action is to hunt and to do scientific research of a whale and the whalers are planning to hunt in all 60 endangered whales for their research. Then Australian have formed ‘Sea Shepherd’, an organization which tries to stop antiwhaling action and saves whales, has named Japanese whalers ‘Migaloo’, and Craig Stringer, the author of the article, disagrees with Japanese whaler strongly.

The article includes a lot of emotional appeals. Craig describes how whales will be captured and how they will be killed and researched, and tried to make the readers feel sympathetic and want to save whales. The descriptions are vivid and the readers can imagine the scene that whales are suffering easily, so probably most people will feel pity for them and agree with him.

Also, he mentions specific names of endangered whales such humpback whales and fin whales. It is easier for the reader to realize the situation and the word, ‘endangered’ can makes the readers want to save whales (because they are endangered), and make Craig’s opinions more convincing.