Japan cuts short Antarctic whale hunt
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Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, the Fisheries Agency said on Wednesday.
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A Greenpeace vessel trying to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica has run low on fuel and is returning to port, the group said.
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Australia has vowed to pursue its battle to ban whaling for scientific purposes after Japan cut short this year's whale hunting season in the Antarctic following a fire on its mother ship.
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A key food source for Antarctic seals, whales and penguins has declined about 80 percent since the 1970s in ocean waters near the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers report.
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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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An anti-whaling group searching  Antarctic waters for a Japanese whaling fleet with the aim of  disrupting its operations said both its vessels will soon be  "pirate ships" following a decision by Britain to deregister  one its vessels.
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Sydney - An international animal welfare group said on Tuesday it was taking legal action against a Japanese whaling company over the deaths of more than 400 whales in Australian waters near Antarctica.
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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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Japan has confirmed resuming whaling in Antarctic waters after environmental protesters stopped obstructing Japanese whalers there, press reports said Tuesday.
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A meeting called by Japan to plan the end of the whaling moratorium is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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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 lost a bid on Wednesday to require the world body that regulates global wildlife trade to review the status of whales, a step that could have led to the resumption of commercial whaling.
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Australia said Wednesday that Japan has agreed to release two activists detained after going aboard a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica, as whale hunters and defenders traded accusations of piracy.
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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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A Japanese whaling ship has begun moving away from Antarctica under its own power, an official said Sunday &#151; 10 days after a fire left it crippled and laden with fuel near the world's biggest penguin breeding ground.
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Humpback whales are safe Â at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
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New Zealand has pressed Japan to move a crippled and burning whaling ship away from the Antarctic coast, fearing an ecological disaster if it remains there.