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February 08

Teen anti-whaling activist, Skye Bortoli, hands over The Daily Telegraph petition to Nobutaka Tsutsui, director of the fisheries and agriculture committee for The Democratic party of Japan. Enlarge image

Whale lovers make a splash in Japan

The Greenpeace whales campaign is building momentum, not on the high seas but in the Japanese corridors of power.

Greenpeace Japan whales campaigner Sakyo Noda sends a message home by holding the Japanese symbol,'nise', meaning FAKE - against the hull of the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship Nisshin Maru. Enlarge image

Public opposition to whaling increases in Japan

Every year the Japanese government spends $US 4.7 million of taxpayers' money to subsidise the whaling industry. However, 87% of Japanese people are completely unaware of what their taxes are funding, according to a new Greenpeace commissioned, opinion poll.

Greenpeace Japan whales campaigner Sakyo Noda sends a message home by holding the Japanese symbol,'nise', meaning FAKE - against the hull of the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship Nisshin Maru. Enlarge image

Japan resumes scandalous whale hunt

The Japanese whaling fleet has again defied world opinion and resumed whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

The Australian Customs vessel, the Oceanic Viking, reports that the Fisheries Agency of Japan’s whaling fleet has killed at least five whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

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