Great article, I have seen the same tragic condition in Flores. Fishermen do some kind of great hunting of whales once a year as a part of tradition with one condition only 2-3 whales allowed to be hunt for feed the whole village. But, when Japanese market searching for whale meat (Japanese fishermen got strict rule of whale hunting, because the West condemnation), now almost all fishermen from Indonesia, Chinese and Japanese start to make Flores their hunting ground for whale. Excessive hunting become a major problem now.