Japan waiver to kill humpback whales. He said the government spokesman in Tokyo, Nobutaka Machimura, confirmed the reports by the public television network NHK. A decision comes after protests in Australia's vibrant and growing international pressure (although Italy had asked the other EU Member States join the World Whaling Convention (IWC) to defend the moratorium on whaling and to the common block against Japan).
A step back, then, for the Japanese government, which last month had sent six whaling for the annual slaughter in the Pacific. Objective: to kill a thousand whales, which included, for the first time in forty years, including humpback whales, considered at risk of extinction, and particularly popular among whale whatcher "for their acrobatic leaps. According to Japan, it was a program of "scientific" research. In response, the Australian government announced the dispatch of planes and a ship monitor the mission of whaling in Japan and gather evidence for a possible prosecution.
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