IFAW: Japan announces plans for new Antarctic whale hunt months after World Court finds its scientific whaling illegal
TOKYO, Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Japan today announced plans for a new ‘scientific’ whaling programme in the Antarctic, just months after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled its whaling in the Southern Ocean was illegal and must stop …
DigitalJournal.com – Nov. 18, 2014
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Japan submits new whaling program details with smaller quotas
By Brooks Hays
Though whaling has been banned in the South Ocean since 1946, Japan has used a loophole to conduct so-called research whaling since 1987.
TOKYO, Nov. 18 (UPI) — In an effort to resume their whaling program, Japanese officials are promising to kill fewer whales this time around. The island nation is poised to jump-start its Antarctic “research” whaling, despite an International Court of Justice ruling earlier this year that banned such activities …
UPI.com – Nov. 18, 2014 at 12:19 PM
www.upi.com/Science_News/2014/…
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