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NATIONS CONDEMN JAPANESE WHALE HUNTING IN ANTARCTIC

18 DECEMBER 2017 - 12:03PM

＞The European Union, together with 12 other nations, has issued a formal statement condemning Japan's Antarctic whale hunting programme and rejected the Japanese government’s weak argument that the slaughter is for scientific research.


＞Last year, Japanese whalers  killed 333 minke whales in the 2015/16 Antarctic hunting season with over 90% of the adult females being pregnant.  

＞“This international pressure is welcome but we call for additional economic pressure as Japan has taken little interest in previous statements like this one,” said WDC anti- whaling campaigner, Astrid Fuchs.

http://us.whales.org/news/2017/12/eu-and-12-other-nations-condemn-japanese-whale-hunting-in-antarctic



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