Australia threatens legal action against Japanese whaling
Source: Associated Press
Australia threatens legal action against Japanese whaling
Associated Press
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
9 hours ago
TOKYO (AP) — Australia, one of most vocal opponents of Japanese whaling hunts in the Antarctic, threatened Monday to take legal action against the lethal expeditions, about a week after Tokyo began its latest hunt.
Australia's foreign and environmental ministers said in a statement that the country had joined 32 others to oppose the Japanese expedition that left last Tuesday to catch up to 333 minke whales in the Antarctic.
The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, but Japan has continued killing whales under an exemption for research.
"There is no scientific basis to include lethal methods in Japan's whaling program," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Environment Minister Greg Hunt said in a statement issued in Canberra, Australia's capital. They said information needed for the management and conservation of whales should not involve lethal methods.
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