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| Subject: Excellent: Japan to beef up protection for this year's whaling fleet Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:02 pm | |
| JAPAN'S whalers are reported to be set to resume their Antarctic hunt with increased security, after being forced out of the Southern Ocean last season under conservationist pressure.
The Japanese government decided it would be against the national interest to give in to the Sea Shepherd activists, according to the ABC yesterday.
Greenpeace Japan said the report was unconfirmed, but the Japanese government fisheries agency had requested more funds.
An International Fund for Animal Welfare whales program director, Patrick Ramage, said the news was not unexpected.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/japan-to-beef-up-protection-for-this-years-whaling-fleet-20110930-1l1i0.html |
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