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On the 19th of January, New Zealand's Prime Minister, Helen Clark attended Greenpeace New Zealand's Global Whale Sanctuary Petition Launch where she made a strong statement about the need to end so-called 'scientific' whaling and her Government's strong support for whale sanctuaries before signing the petition.
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| Greenpeace campaigners try to block whaling vessels from harpooning whales on Christmas da |
As the Japanese foreign minister, Mr. Yohei Kono arrives in London to discuss Japan - UK economic relations, Japan is continuing to hunt whales illegally in the protected Southern Ocean Sanctuary. Mr Kono is due to meet Foreign Secretary Robin Cook as part of a brief European tour.
Greenpeace's ship, the Arctic Sunrise, which has now been tracking Japan's illegal whaling activities for 23 days, witnessed seven minke whales being harpooned by Japanese whalers.
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The Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru today rammed the Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise while making an illegal overtaking manoeuvre in the remote Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
The incident follows Greenpeace's successful bid on Monday to block the illegal whale hunt, in which a Greenpeace activist twice jumped into the icy waters of the Antarctic to disrupt the activities of the whalers. The activist also climbed on to the back of the dead whale as it was being dragged up the ramp of the factory vessel. As catcher ships can only carry two harpooned whales at a time, this delayed the hunt.
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Greenpeace volunteers today used inflatable boats to interfere with a Japanese whaling fleet illegally hunting Minke whales inside the internationally recognised whale sanctuary that surrounds Antarctica.
The inflatable boats were launched from the Greenpeace vessel MV Arctic Sunrise at 08.00 local time (02.00GMT) and drove two hours across icy Antarctic waters to block the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru from loading a harpooned whale from a catcher ship. The Southern Ocean around Antarctica was formally designated a whale sanctuary in 1994 by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), making the region permanently off limits to commercial whaling. However, despite repeated calls from the IWC to cancel its whaling programme, Japan began hunting in the Sanctuary last month, intending to kill 440 Minke whales (up from 389 last year) as part of a so-called 'scientific research' programme.
By ignoring the IWC request to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, Japan is in breach of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which requires all countries to co-operate with the IWC in the conservation of whales.
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Greenpeace has welcomed a move by Britain to become the latest government to join a growing list of nations calling on the Japanese government to cancel its illegal Antarctic whaling programme.
Just days before the Japanese whaling fleet is due to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (an internationally recognised whale sanctuary surrounding Antarctica), Peter Hain, Foreign Office Minister advised Greenpeace that the Government had written to the Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs asking for an immediate suspension of the whaling programme.
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The Nisshin Maru - Japanese whaling
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Greenpeace today condemned the Japanese government for allowing the restart of its bogus 'scientific' whaling operations in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica. Japan's whaling fleet consisting of the whaling factory ship Nishin Maru, three catcher ships and a spotter vessel left the Japanese port of Shimonoseki to hunt whales in Antarctica today.
