International Whaling Commission Scientists Slam Japan’s Excuse for Continuing to Kill Whales
Mark Palmer, Earth Island Institute
Japan’s new whaling scheme ( www.onegreenplanet.org/news/ja… ) for Antarctica met yet another obstacle after the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC’s) Scientific Committee decided the proposal to kill 333 minke whales each year for the next 12 years was not grounded in science.
Despite this and an adverse decision by the International Court of Justice at the Hague (ICJ), Japan’s government defiantly proposes to go forward with the killing ( www.onegreenplanet.org/animals… ). The IWC itself will not meet until 2016 …
One Green Planet – July 16, 2015
International Whaling Commission Scientists Slam Japan’s Excuse for Continuing to Kill Whales
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Published by „the fellbeißer“© (July 16, 2015)
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