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Iceland's whalers have embarked on this year's hunt with the country's foreign minister warning that whaling may damage Iceland's "long term interests".
Boats left to begin the hunt on Tuesday after the fisheries ministry issued a quota of 40 minke wha..
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Officials in Japan and Australia are working to resolve a row over two protesters detained on a Japanese whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean.
Japanese crewmen took the protesters, from the radical Sea Shepherd group, into custody on Tuesday after they..
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland's whaling, held under rules permitting subsistence hunting, has become too commercial in character.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) found that a quarter of last year's catch was traded for..
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Iceland is likely to approve the commercial hunting of whales for this summer, the BBC has learned.
Its whaling industry is asking for a quota of about 100 minke whales and a number of fin whales too.
A government official confirmed it is "likely" t..
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Talks between pro- and anti-whaling countries on how to resolve their differences have ended with agreement to look for dialogue and common ground.
Japan pledged not to seek commercial whaling quotas in the immediate future, and offered to discuss its..
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is due to open a meeting in London which aims to find common ground between pro- and anti-whaling nations.
Some anti-whaling countries are keen to explore compromise with Japan, though others remain implacably..
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Japan is looking for new supporters of its pro-whaling stance ahead of a major meeting on the future of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
A one-day seminar on Monday brought delegates from 12 developing countries, most of them not IWC members..
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Japan's whaling fleet in the waters off Antarctica has been attacked again by protesters, Tokyo officials have said.
Activists from the Sea Shepherd group threw containers filled with a mild form of acid made from rotten butter at a Japanese ship.
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An Australian court has ruled that the activities of the Japanese whaling fleet are illegal and ordered it to halt its operations.
The Federal Court said Japan had broken domestic law by killing whales in Australian waters off Antarctica.
It is not..
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Greenpeace conservation activists say they have disrupted the Japanese whale hunt near Antarctica's coast by chasing a factory ship out of the whaling zone.
Crew from protest ship Esperanza said they were maintaining the chase as the whalers cannot hun..
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A Japanese whaling fleet has set sail aiming to harpoon humpback whales for the first time in decades.
The fleet is conducting its largest hunt in the South Pacific - it has instructions to kill up to 1,000 whales, including 50 humpbacks.
The humpba..
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The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges all countries to stop catching..
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Japan has hinted at significant compromise at the opening of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Alaska.
Deputy whaling commissioner Joji Morishita said Japan would consider abandoning proposals to hunt humpback whales i..
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Japan's main whaling ship has arrived back in port after an Antarctic hunt hit by setbacks including a fatal fire.
Despite being forced to end the hunting season early, the crew still killed 508 whales out of a target of 860.
The annual hunt always..
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