The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission wraps up in Santiago, Chile today – where a proposal by Greenland to catch 10 hunchbacks was denied. Greenland says their indigenous Inuit communities have a nutritional and cultural need for the whale meat, but their request was opposed by EU countries, which vote together. Greenland says it will make a similar request next year. In more news from the Whaling Commission meeting, it appears that for the first time several pro-conservation and pro-hunt nations may be close to reaching a compromise on the commercial whale hunt. From Santiago, Chile FSRN's Jorge Garretón explains.

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