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4/2/14

UN COURT ORDERS JAPAN TO STOP ANTARTIC WHALE HUNTING

CBS NEWS JAPAN ORDERED TO HAULT ANNUAL ANTARTIC WHALE HUNT  link to video:

March 31, 2014, 6:49 PM|

The UN’s highest court has ordered Japan to stop its annual whale hunt in the Antarctic, ruling that the research produced didn’t justify the number of animals killed. Japan is one of the few countries to practice whaling. Seth Doane reports.

PBS : ON UN COURT ORDER plus video and text

"Japan has killed as many as 3,600 minke whales and issued permits for hunting humpback and fin whales within the Whale Sanctuary since the issuing of the JARPA II permits in 2005, The New York Times reports. The U.N. found that not only does Japan lack significant scientific results from their purported studies, but the evidence suggests that Japan has been exploiting the whales for other reasons. The U.N. has determined that Japan has breached its obligations under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling...."

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