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 Stories About: Australia AND international politics AND Japan AND news AND whaling AND wildlife
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Whale Played
Aussies release gruesome footage of Japanese whale hunt |
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08 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:30 PM on 08 Feb 2008 There's a new twist in the twisty tale of Japan's off-then-back-on-again whale hunt: the Australian government has released gut-wrenching footage of what it says is a mother and baby minke whale being harpooned and hauled aboard a Japanese ship. An unamused official at Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research denied that the large and small whales were a mother and calf, and warned that the Austr ... |
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| Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Mob Gnarly and the Whalers
Protesters converge on Japan's whaling fleet; Aussie court rules Japan hunt illegal |
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15 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:02 AM on 15 Jan 2008 It's been high drama on the high seas the past few days as the unpopular Japanese whaling fleet has been at the heart of legal action and a target of direct-action protest. Earlier this week, Greenpeace successfully tracked down Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and has been chasing them around, disrupting the hunt. Today, a federal court in Aus ... |
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| Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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