Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary The Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary is an area in the Indian Ocean where the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has banned all types of commercial whaling. The IWC has at present designated two such sanctuaries, the other being the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Repeated proposals at the IWC for a South Atlantic Sanctuary and a South Pacific Sanctuary have never reached the 75% majority needed to pass. The Indian Ocean Sanctuary was established by the IWC in 1979 after being proposed by the tiny island nation of the Seychelles, in its first meeting as an IWC member,
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Indonesia Over one thousand bodies found on the streets in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh were placed in mass graves without waiting for identification as officials quickly try to keep the sanitation situation from worsening. Leupung -- sometimes spelt ""Leupueng"", is a town in the district (Kabupaten/Kota) of Aceh Besar, close to the city of Banda Aceh, the capital of the "special territory" of Aceh. The town has been completely obliterated by the tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Media reports state that the tsunami was directed by seaside limestone cliffs towards the town of Leupung, which had