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February 08

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.

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.

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.