Australia will continue to photograph Japan’s whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday, despite Japan’s warning of a diplomatic protest over Australia’s tough anti-whaling stance.
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Australia will continue to photograph Japan’s whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday, despite Japan’s warning of a diplomatic protest over Australia’s tough anti-whaling stance.
The EU repeated a call on Friday for members to adopt a unified stance on whaling, saying images released by Australia of whales being killed in Antarctica showed the reality of Japanese hunting.
Norway has set a commercial whaling quota of 1,052 minke whales in 2008, unchanged from last year, drawing criticism from environmental groups pressuring Oslo to call off its hunts.
During an effort watch from Ram Head, Ardmore today Andrew Malcolm sees at least one fin whale in West Waterford/East Cork.
President George W. Bush should not have exempted the Navy from obeying laws intended to protect endangered whales and other marine mammals by curbing the use of sonar off the California coast, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
The trial has begun of two men accused of disturbing a dolphin off the east Kent coast. BBC
Interested in learning more about whales and dolphins in Co. Cork’s inshore waters next Friday evening 15th Feb?
Japan’s Antarctic fleet has resumed whaling after anti-hunt activists suspended their pursuit of the vessels in the Southern Ocean to refuel. BBC
This year has been an exceptional one for the IWDG. The involvement of the IWDG in research and conservation of cetaceans in Ireland has increased massively and would have stretched the groups resources if it wasn’t for us being able to bring in new, experienced people to contribute to these projects. The joint IWDG/GMIT project