'Croc-hunter' Irwin's family to campaign against Japanese whaling
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"Crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin's family plans a campaign against Japanese whaling to show that scientific data about whales can be obtained without killing them, the Australian's widow said Thursday.
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Officials from 75 nations are set for talks critical to whale conservation amid political pressure to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle giants.
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Australia on Wednesday urged Japanese whalers and environmental activists heading for a showdown in the Southern Ocean to show restraint, warning deaths could occur if anything went wrong.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.
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Bindi Irwin wants her new TV show to continue the educational and conservation work of her father, the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin.
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The United States and Japan may be  on opposite sides of the whaling debate but they have a common aim -- gaining support for whale hunting by their indigenous and coastal communities.
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The late &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin will be reunited with his daughter Bindi when the pair appear in the eight-year-old&#39;s new conservation-themed television series.
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The family of Madeleine McCann, the British girl who vanished in Portugal more than four months ago, will launch a massive advertising campaign aimed at keeping the search for her a public priority.
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Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel from a rubber boat in Antarctic waters, offering a solution to a tense, two-day standoff on the high seas.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Australia will continue to photograph Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday, despite Japan's warning of a diplomatic protest over Australia's tough anti-whaling stance.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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Activists intent on disrupting Japan's whale hunt offer a $25,000 reward for details leading them to the fleet.
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Japan has pledged to keep whaling as its troubled fleet headed home early from Antarctic waters, while opponents exulted at the pullout and vowed to ramp up pressure against the hunt.
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Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith was due Thursday in Japan as part of his first foreign trip since taking office, amid a bitter feud between the allies over whaling.
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Militant environmental activists on Saturday vowed to increase their presence in the Southern Ocean next year in their bid to prevent Japanese whalers from killing the giant mammals.
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The family of Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin considers whether he should receive a state funeral.