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Japanese Whalers Preparing to Leave for Southern Ocean Hunt (Voice of America)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:09:45 GMT
Japan's whaling fleet is expected to begin soon its annual whale harvest in the Southern Ocean. Tokyo has yet to confirm when the ships involved in the controversial program will depart, or even where they will sail from.

Greens urge Govt action on whaling monitoring (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:46:00 GMT
The Greens say they are deeply concerned about the Federal Government's lack of action on monitoring the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.

Japanese whaling fleet sets out (Sky News Australia)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:45:20 GMT
The whaling season has begun with a Japanese hunting vessel leaving port for the Southern Ocean, Greenpeace claims.

Australia Presses Japan To End Whale Hunt (Planet Ark)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:27:29 GMT
CANBERRA - Australia urged Japan to abandon its yearly whale hunt on Monday, launching its own scientific whaling study in the Southern Ocean to prove it was not necessary to kill the ocean mammals to study them.

Whale study will be painless (The New Zealand Herald)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:36:45 GMT
The A$6 million ($7.11 million) campaign begins just ahead of the Southern Ocean summer whaling season, when Japan regularly kills more than 1000 whales for research. Critics say the hunts are a cover for commercial whaling, banned since 1986.

Portimão Global: arrival in Southern Ocean (Yachting and Boating World)
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:42:47 GMT
Team Mowgli, co-skippered by Jeremy Salvesen and David Thomson are the first boat into the Southern Ocean as they claw their way to Cape Town on the first leg of the Portimão Global Ocean Race.

Whaling fleet 'departs on annual hunt' (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT
Japan's whaling fleet appears to have departed on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean.

Japanese whaling fleet sets out (The West Australian)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:44:57 GMT
The whaling season has begun with a Japanese hunting vessel leaving port for the Southern Ocean, Greenpeace claims. The conservation group said the ship Nisshin Maru left the port of Innoshima on Monday.

Australia presses Japan to end whale hunt (AlertNet)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:21:36 GMT
Source: Reuters By Rob Taylor CANBERRA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Australia urged Japan to abandon its yearly whale hunt on Monday, launching its own scientific whaling study in the Southern Ocean to prove it was not ...

Australia invests in whale research (The Charlotte Observer)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:54:57 GMT
(The Associated Press) Australia will invest millions of dollars in non-lethal whale research to show Japan that the animals do not need to be killed in order to be studied, the government announced Monday. The $3.87 million campaign begins just ahead of Japan's Southern Ocean summer whaling season, when its fleet regularly kills more than 1,000 whales for research. Critics say the hunts are a ...

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