New Zealand intervenes in whaling case
Andrew Darby
Hobart correspondent for Fairfax Media
New Zealand has rejected Japan’s claim to be legally whaling in the Antarctic as an attempt to reduce the global whaling treaty to an industry cartel.
Intervening in the International Court of Justice case brought by Australia against Japan on Monday, the NZ Attorney General, Chris Finlayson, said the treaty’s purpose was not the protection of commercial whaling …
The Canberra Times – July 8, 2013 – 10:05 PM
www.canberratimes.com.au/envir…
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Dreyfus takes on Japan over whaling
FEDERAL Attorney-General and Isaacs MP Mark Dreyfus will reach a rare legal pinnacle this week, addressing the International Court of Justice in a bid to outlaw Japan’s whaling program.
Mr Dreyfus, a Queen’s counsel, flew to The Hague on Friday to present the Australian government’s final submission this week.
The government will argue that Japan, which has killed more than 10,000 whales in the name of science, is in breach of a ban on commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary …
Peninsula Weekly – July 8, 2013, 5:22 p.m.
www.peninsulaweekly.com.au/sto…
More information:
Australian Government legal action against Japanese whaling
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Sea Shepherd supports commercial whaling legal challenge
Press Release: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Sea Shepherd New Zealand supports Australian legal challenge to end commercial whaling
In 2008, an Australian court ordered an end to Japanese whale hunts in the Southern Ocean, yet Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) have continued to set a yearly quota for Minke, Fin and Humpback whales. In 2010, Australia launched a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands to end the hunt as it violates the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling laws’ moratorium on commercial whaling. Since this moratorium was established in 1986, Japan has killed over 14, 000 whales under the ‘scientific research’ clause. The ICJ hearing began on June 26, 2013 and is expected to continue for three weeks …
Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Monday, 8 July 2013, 5:21 pm
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1307…
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Minke Whaling Zone in Southwest Iceland Extended
Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson suspended the decision of his predecessor Steingrímur J. Sigfússon on Friday on extending the reserve for minke whales in Faxaflói bay off Reykjavík, restoring the bay’s whaling zone to its former size …
IcelandReview – 08.07.2013 | 13:15
www.icelandreview.com/icelandr…
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Surfer knocked out by whale at Bondi Beach (Video)
Peter Bodkin
From: The Daily Telegraph
TALK about a sting in the tail. Surfer Bishan Rajapakse was lucky to be pulled from the waves with only a headache and sore shoulder after he was knocked unconscious by a southern right whale yesterday …
The Australian – July 08, 2013 12:00 AM
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/…
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