Japan’s whaling bid tested by world panel
Agence France-Presse
Japan’s plans to resume a controversial Antarctic whale hunt in the name of research, which opponents say is really just for the meat, came under scrutiny in Slovenia on Tuesday.
As members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) met for a second day, the agenda was laden with contentious issues that seek to balance national whaling traditions with conservation needs …
GlobalPost – September 16, 2014 8:01 pm
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ne…
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IWC ‘has majority’ to curb Japanese whale culls
Arthur Neslen
New Zealand proposing that world’s whale conservation body also add strict conditions to any future scientific whaling permits.
A narrow majority of delegates at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) summit support moves to extend a ban on Japan’s scientific whaling plans until at least 2016 in a vote due on Wednesday …
The Guardian – Tuesday 16 September 2014 17.45 BST
www.theguardian.com/environmen…
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Thirty-Five Governments Call on Iceland to Stop Whaling
By Zoë Robert
A formal diplomatic protest, known as a démarche, was yesterday delivered to the Icelandic Government Offices in Reykjavík.
The EU, its 28 member states and the governments of the United States, Australia, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Monaco and New-Zealand, declared their “strong opposition” to commercial whaling in Iceland, in particular the hunting of fin whales and the subsequent trading of fin whale products, urging Iceland to “respect the IWC’s global moratorium and end its commercial whaling and international trade in whale products.” …
IcelandReview – September 16, 2014 16:12
icelandreview.com/news/2014/09…
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Japan seeks to restart ‘scientific whaling’ program amidst international backlash
Michael d’Estries
Australia and New Zealand lead efforts to enforce an earlier court ruling that found Japan’s whaling program to be more commercial than scientific.
Despite a ruling earlier this year by the International Court of Justice that found Japan’s whaling program in the Antarctic to be “illegal” ( www.mnn.com/earth-matters/anim… ), officials there are once again attempting to resume hunting under a “scientific research” smokescreen. News of Japan’s plans comes as the International Whaling Commission is having its first general session in more than two years – with representatives from 68 of the 88 signatories gathering for the four-day event …
Mother Nature Network (blog) – Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:22 PM
www.mnn.com/earth-matters/anim…
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The first dolphins of Japan’s annual hunting season have been killed at ‘The Cove’
By Sarah Larimer
Japan’s controversial dolphin-hunting season is underway, and the marine conservation activists who monitor the annual event say the first animals have been killed in the waters near the town of Taiji …
Washington Post (blog) – September 16 at 12:27 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/w…
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