Anti-whaling brigade guilty of ‘eco-imperialism’: Japan
Reuters in Tokyo
Opposition to Japan’s whaling programme is a kind of “eco-imperialism” that imposes one value system on another and is based on emotion, not science, Japan’s top whaling official said.
Tokyo last week unveiled plans to resume whale hunting in the Southern Ocean in 2015 despite an international court ruling that previous hunts were illegal, although it also slashed the quota for the so-called scientific whaling programme …
South China Morning Post (subscription) – November 27, 2014, 2:37 am
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No more cetacean extinctions! It’s our last chance to save the vaquita
Willie Mackenzie / Greenpeace
The ‘vaquita’, a small porpoise limited to a small area of Mexico’s Gulf of California, is on the brink of extinction, writes Willie Mackenzie – its numbers reduced to around 100. But it’s not too late to save it, by expanding a protected area and providing alternative livelihoods for local fishermen …
The Ecologist – 27th November 2014
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Japan vows to resume Antarctic whale hunt for ‘science’ next year
By Anna Fifield
TOKYO — Critics of Japan’s whaling practices are guilty of “eco-imperialism” for trying to impose their beliefs on countries that hunt and eat whales, Japan’s pointman on the issue said Wednesday.
Japan is now embarking on a campaign to demonstrate the scientific merits of its controversial Antarctic whaling missions, after the International Court of Justice this year declared its purported research program was just a cover for commercial hunting …
Washington Post – November 26 at 2:33 PM
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