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It's not research - Japan's whale slaughter is commercial

By Ian Campbell - posted Tuesday, 31 May 2005


The JFA's new scientific whaling proposal follows an 18-year program that led to the killing of almost 7,000 Antarctic minke whales. This is during a time when a complete international ban on commercial whaling is supposedly in place.

According to media reports, Japan is proposing a program that would, if continued for another 18 years, take about 17,000 minke whales along with 800 humpback whales and 800 fin whales. This cannot be disguised as science. This is full-scale commercial whaling and a slaughter of one of the largest and most intelligent creatures on our planet.

It is time to consign scientific whaling to the past and bring the IWC into the new millennium. Our goal is to amend the IWC convention and remove the loophole that allows scientific whaling.

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This generation will be judged in part by the way we treat these amazing creatures. Australia will not only continue to fight to save this important species, we will lead this historic mission.

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First published in The Australian on May 23, 2005.



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