Japanese whale hunt ended early
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Japan's whaling fleet cuts short its annual hunt after a fire two weeks ago crippled the main boat.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a  Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday,  while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to  commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.
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The polarized International Whaling Commission wraps up another stormy annual meeting Thursday as it considers Japan&#39;s bid to lift a ban to allow coastal communities to hunt whales.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country's fleet, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Tuesday agreed to renew quotas for whale hunts by natives in the United States and Russia but deferred Greenland&#39;s bid for a quota expansion.
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Researchers at a museum in central Japan have right whale fossils that are at least 5 million years old, making them the oldest fossilized remains of the animal in the world, officials said.
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Japan has turned down an offer from  Greenpeace to tow a whaling ship that caught fire off the  Antarctic coast, recalling that activists of the conservation  group had boarded the same vessel almost a decade ago.
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Greenpeace said Monday it has disrupted the Japanese whale hunt off Antarctica by chasing the fleet's whale processing factory ship out of the whaling zone.
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Japan said Wednesday that the International Whaling Commission should allow four of its coastal communities to hunt minke whales because the tradition is so old that it qualifies as subsistence hunting.
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Japan is dropping its plan to kill humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, the countryâs top government spokesman said.
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REYKJAVIK, Jun 19 (IPS) - No whales have been caught under Iceland's  commercial whaling programme since October last year, when  whaling stopped for the year. Over a two-week period beginning in  late September, seven fin whales and two minke whales were  hunted, out of a quota of nine fin whales and 30 minke whales for  the period up to Sept. 1.
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The crew of a Japanese whaling ship stranded in Antarctic waters was trying to repair its engines Sunday and prevent an abrupt end to Japan's whaling season, an official said.
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Japanese whalers and activists suspend hostilities in the hunt for two missing activists in the Antarctic.
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A special meeting of the International Whaling Commission began on Tuesday, with host Japan and like-minded countries hoping the gathering will build momentum to resume commercial hunting of the giant creatures.
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Anti-whaling nations New Zealand and Australia vowed Thursday to continue the fight to end Japan's annual whale hunts, warning that its plans to kill humpback whales off Antarctica in December could spark outrage. The warning comes just a day after Japan ended its latest southern whale program following a deadly fire that crippled the mother ship of its whaling fleet and left it drifting near the Antarctic coast. A crewman died in the fire.
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Australia's Federal Court on Tuesday ordered Japan to stop hunting and killing whales anywhere around its coastline or off Australian Antarctic territory.