Australia releases graphic whaling photos
SYDNEY, Australia -- 7 February 2008: Australia has released graphic pictures of minke whales caught by a Japanese hunt in the Antarctic. Canberra claimed the pictures, taken by customs officers tracking the hunt, show a harpooned mother and calf being dragged from the sea.
BBC News.
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Japan lacks votes to end whaling ban
Japan lacks votes to end whaling ban,
www.chron.com May 21, 2007, By JOSEPH COLEMAN 2007 The Associated Press
TOKYO The fate of the 21-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling is a numbers' game played at the annual International Whaling Commission meeting and this year Japan is still short of votes in its drive to overturn the ban.
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A last gasp effort to save the whaling ban?
ARTICLE: A last gasp effort to save the whaling ban? It's time to call Attenborough. John Vidal, Monday May 7, 2007.
The Guardian.An unlikely grouping of the British government, naturalist Sir David Attenborough and Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative Party treasurer, has emerged to try to stop Japan and its allies from overturning the international ban on whaling.
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