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Earthrace Boosts Anti-whaling Force Against Japan's Antarctic Whalers
Japan asked Australia to prevent the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin leaving port to harass its Antarctic whalers next summer but the request is improbable. The anti-whaling activists plan to upgrade their fleet from an ageing, former...
Tags: Japan, Australia, Sea Shepherd, Steve Irwin, Antarctic whalers’ anti-whaling activists, North Atlantic fisheries, Paul Watson, Earthrace, Pete Bethune, International Whaling Commission, ITC, Jun Yamashita, Brisbane, Hobart, water cannon, whalers, Operation Waltzing Matilda, kangaroo eye patch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, DFAT, David Dutton, Madeira, Rudd Government, Southern Ocean, Australian Federal Police, AFP, Dutch Government, IWC, Marie-Josee Jenniskens, Netherlands Government, New Zealand, Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Coastal whales threatened by 'bycatch whaling'
Madeira :: OH :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility
The study, by Baker, a cetacean expert, and Vimoksalehi Lukoscheck of the University of California-Irvine, found that nearly 46 percent of the minke whale products they examined in Japanese markets originated from a coastal population, which has distinct...
Tags: IWC, Japanese, The International Whaling Commission, international whale, whale commission
NKorea alerts Japan to offshore exercises
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
Credibility North Korea has warned Japan to stay clear of parts of its eastern coastal waters for 16 days starting Thursday when it plans to conduct live-fire exercises, the Japan Coast Guard said Tuesday. "They clearly stated that the purpose of the warning would...
Tags: Japan Coast Guard, coastal waters, allow japan, The International Whaling Commission, hunt whale, international whale, whale commission, IWC, Azuma Yano, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi
Govt 'secretly drops' Japan whaling case
Tōkyō :: Japan | 6 months ago
Credibility Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett insists Australia is still involved in "tough negotiations" and will not accept any deal allowing whaling to continue ahead of next month's International Whaling Commission meeting. But Opposition environment...
They want to kill the whales
They want to kill more whales - a lot more - but we're not going to let them. Japanese whalers have already killed 680 whales in the last few months, all under the ridiculous sham of conducting "research." In less than a month, Japan...
Tags: whales, green peace, iwc
IWC chief flags whaling compromise
Rome :: Italy | 9 months ago
Credibility Representatives from IWC countries, including Australia, are holding so-called intercessional meetings in Rome this week for talks on the future of the commission, which is beset by disagreements between pro and anti-whaling nations. The meeting will...
Tags: IWC, whales commission, Rome, International Whaling Commission, international whales
IWC asks Australia to legalise whaling
Tōkyō :: Japan | 10 months ago
Credibility The proposal is set out in a discussion paper released overnight. The commission's chairman, Bill Hogarth, says the organisation is at a crossroads. He has laid out a two-stage plan for reform where Japan would be allowed to resume hunting minke whales...
Tags: Japan, IWC, allowed japan
IWC meeting in Chile ends without agreement
Santiago :: Chile | about 1 year ago
Credibility Japan comes back home without a vote or resolution against them and Iceland began a new round of commercial whale hunting just before this conference," Sonntag said. "So, they (Japan, Iceland and Norway) are not taking this seriously. Nothing has...
Tags: Japan, IWC, Ralf Sonntag
Several countries condemn Japanese whaling
Santiago :: Chile | about 1 year ago
Credibility Several countries have expressed their condemnation here Thursday of Japan's so-called scientific whale hunting, during the 60th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Japan's whale hunting is one of the most sensitive issues of the...
Tags: Japan, whale hunt, IWC, The International Whaling Commission, international whale, whale commission
IWC votes against Greenland Indigenous whaling
Santiago :: Chile | about 1 year ago
Credibility Australia and other anti-whaling countries secured the numbers to reject the first vote at this year's meeting. The pro-whaling countries had hoped to secure enough votes to allow Greenland's Indigenous communities to hunt humpbacks for food, but the...
Tags: IWC, Greenland Indigenous, Greenlanders, The International Whaling Commission, whale countries
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