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| Australia Presses Japan To End Whale Hunt (Planet Ark)
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| Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:27:29 GMT
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| 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.
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| Whale study will be painless (The New Zealand Herald)
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| Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:36:45 GMT
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| 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.
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| Japanese whaling fleet sets out (The West Australian)
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| Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:44:57 GMT
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| 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.
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| Australia presses Japan to end whale hunt (AlertNet)
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| Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:21:36 GMT
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| 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 ...
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| Australia invests in whale research (The Charlotte Observer)
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| Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:54:57 GMT
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| (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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