Japan launches new mission to hunt 60 minke whales

Japan launched a new whaling mission today to catch 60 minke whales off the coast of their country, saying they needed them for research. Greenpeace has condemned the move saying that they can research them without killing them, and citing evidence that Japanese ships just...

Japanese study says loss of fat in whales may be result of climate change

Japan, the country that has killed thousands of whales in the name of research are now speaking out about their findings from the dead whales' research, which many say is just commercial whaling by another...

Iceland's whale hunt set to start

Iceland's commercial whale hunt is set to begin on Tuesday after whalers were allowed by the government to hunt a quota of 40 minke whales. "Whalers had been seeking a quota of about 100, but ministers settled on...

Court rules Japan whalers breaking Aust law

"The [Australian] Federal Court has ruled that the Japanese whaling fleet is breaking Australian law, and has issued an injunction to stop its activities.  The court says it is satisfied that the Japanese whaling fleet, controlled by Japanese company Kyodo Senpaku...

Minke whale hides from Jap whalers in Amazon River

"An 18-foot minke whale ran aground on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle some 1,000 miles from the ocean, Brazilian media reported Friday.  While the official line is that the whale was thought to have become separated from its main group.  However reliable sources say...

UPDATE: Japan Threatens To Pull Out of IWC

UPDATE: Japan and Iceland have been denied a review on the population status of the whale species most valued by hunters.  This decision by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...

Iceland to begin killing whales for whalemeat

The slaughter of whales for profit is to begin again in the Atlantic...this news from BBC will undoubtedly alarm environmentalists everywhere."Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat from its scientific whaling...

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