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Posted by Willie — 12 July 2011 at 10:37am
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In a warehouse-like hall, with demoralisingly black walls, in a hotel on the Channel Island of Jersey, several hundred people have gathered this week for the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission.
Posted by Willie — 16 February 2011 at 7:46pm
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A Greenpeace boat tries to prevent whaling ship the Nisshin Maru from refuelling in the Southern Ocean, 2008
In this day and age, commercial whaling is out-of-date and should
be out-of-the-question. Sadly it isn’t, but maybe the
news that the Japanese whaling fleet might be cutting short its stay in the
Southern ocean is cause for some optimism.
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Over-exploit, cheat, deplete. The cycle of greed behind the global whaling industry drove one whale population after another toward oblivion. It is still not known if some species will ever recover, even after decades of protection.
Facts and figures
The global whaling industry has driven one whale population after another towards extinctionThe statistics say it all. The blue whales of the Antarctic are at less than one per cent of their original abundance, despite 40 years of complete protection. Some populations of whales are recovering but some are not.
Posted by jamie — 6 September 2010 at 10:12am
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Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, two Greenpeace activists known as the Tokyo Two, exposed widespread corruption in Japan's whaling programme, yet in return, they have been handed a one year suspended prison sentence.
Posted by jamie — 3 September 2010 at 10:54am
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Junichi (right) and Toru (left) working on their defence during their trial (c) Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace
Two years ago, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki exposed a scandal involving government
corruption entrenched within the tax-payer funded Japanese whaling
industry. They are on trial for theft and trespass, and are awaiting the verdict due this coming Monday.
This will be the first blog Toru and I have written together, as up
until recently our heavy bail restrictions have meant that we could not
be in the same room or even talk to each other without a lawyer present.
The verdict in our trial is approaching, and on Monday
6 September we will know what our fate is. We don't really know what the
result would be, all we know now is that it is going to show the status
of Japanese democracy. It's a long way from where it was when this case
started - our investigation to end Japan's whaling.
Posted by Willie — 17 August 2010 at 10:08am
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Is this the kind of whale watching Icelandic whalers are considering? © Greenpeace/Axelsson
I've long since given up trying to apply any semblance of logic to the arguments for whaling, and the latest news from Iceland doesn't prove me wrong.
