Australia on the warpath about Japan’s whaling plans
Japanese leader Shinzo Abe’s decision to resume Japan’s annual arctic whale hunt has Australian environmentalists hot under the collar.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Tag: whaling
Japan to defend whaling activity in Hague case with Australia
Japan is set to tell the UN’s top court that its whaling program — opposed by Australia — is “carefully conceived and planned and sustainable”.
Sea Shepherd Antarctic conflict escalates as Japan sends navy ship
Sea Shepherd’s confrontation with Japanese whalers has escalated in the Southern Ocean with more collisions reported.
Sea Shepherd release video footage of alleged ramming
Sea Shepherd has released video footage taken by its activists yesterday allegedly showing the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru ramming into the SS fleet.
Smith rules out sending Navy to Antarctic whaling protest incident
Defence Minister Stephen Smith has ruled out sending a navy ship to the clash between Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd protesters in Antarctic waters and says the government will wait for a ruling from the International Court of Justice over whaling in the Southern Ocean.
UPDATE: Japan pulls out whaling fleet after Sea Shepherd clashes
Japanese Fisheries have released a statement saying they have suspended whaling in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica following a collision with Sea Shepherd vessels.
Japanese whaling ship rams Sea Shepherd fleet in Antarctic incident
The Sea Shepherd activist group have alleged their ship the Bob Barker has been seriously damaged in a conflict with Japanese whalers attempting to refuel in the Southern Ocean near an Australian station in Antarctica.
Australia welcomes South Korea plans to abandon “scientific” whaling
The Australian Government has welcomed confirmation from South Korea that it will not go ahead with a lethal “scientific” whaling program.
Bob Brown to spearhead Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling campaign
Former Greens leader Bob Brown has been appointed director of anti-whaling society Sea Shepherd after legal action forces the resignation of the group’s founder Paul Watson.
Australia to oppose Korean whaling plan
The plan revealed at the International Whaling Commission talks in Panama has raised the ire of animal welfare groups and prompted calls by the Australian Greens and the coalition for swift diplomatic action.
Detained Aussie whaling activists on hunger strike
The three Australian activists being held on a Japanese whaling security vessel are on a hunger strike, with an environmental group saying this was the plan all along.
Damaged Sea Shepherd ship on way to WA
Conservation group Sea Shepherd has reached one of its ships that became stranded after a big wave cracked its hull.
Japanese whaling condemned by government
Australia's government has condemned a decision by Japan to continue hunting whales in the Southern Ocean.
Peter Garrett worried by whaling ‘bribes’
Australia has called for a fundamental overhaul of the organisation which oversees whaling, following accusations of bribery levied against Japan.
Australia launches controversial whaling legal action against Japan
Australia has announced it is launching legal action at the International Court of Justice against Japan over whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Australia launches japan legal action on whaling
The Australian Government is launching international legal action against Japan to stop scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean this week.
‘Government should take action’: Japan whalers
Japan’s whaling fleet is urging the Australian Government to publicly condemn the actions of anti-whaling campaigners in the Southern Ocean.
Greenpeace on war path
In the early hours of Saturday morning the Greenpeace protest ship Esperanza located the fleet of six ships conducting so-called scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean, and began its pursuit of the main vessel Nisshin Maru.
Whaling islands lobbied
Environment Minister Ian Campbell is lobbying Pacific island nations in a bid to ban whaling.
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