Japan drops humpback whale hunt
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says.
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Japan has decided to pull its whaling fleet out of the Antarctic and end this year's whale hunt early after a deadly fire crippled its mothership, officials said Wednesday.
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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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A meeting called by Japan to plan the end of the whaling moratorium is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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Japanese harpoonists killed five whales in one day after protesters who had halted the hunt in Antarctic waters were forced to return to port to refuel, an Australian report said Friday.
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Anti-whaling campaigners urged Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday to tell Japan at a regional summit this week to stop killing whales in Australian waters.
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Militant environmentalists who have halted Japan's whaling in the Antarctic Ocean said Monday they were set to return to shore as they were running out of fuel.
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A group that had been fruitlessly searching at sea for missing California scientist Jim Gray has officially called off its search.  The Los Angeles Times said the group, made up of Gray's friends, had joined the U.S.
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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 humpback whale trapped for more than a week behind a hydroelectric dam refused the latest attempt Monday to lure him back to the ocean. Whale rescuers used the recorded sounds of feeding humpbacks to try to coax the 16 1/2 ton animal through the sluice gates that separate the Annapolis River from the Atlantic Ocean.
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Japan failed in its bid Thursday to lift a moratorium on commercial whaling after stormy annual talks of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) and warned it might pull out of the organization.
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Marine biologists temporarily halted efforts to coax two lost, injured whales back to the Pacific on Thursday morning, after recordings of clanging pipes, feeding humpbacks and killer orcas failed to induce the pair to head back to saltwater.
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An animal rights group claimed Tuesday Japan has illegally killed hundreds of whales in an Australian whale sanctuary and launched legal action aimed at stopping the hunt.
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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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Japan was warned Friday it risks international anger if it includes endangered humpbacks in its annual whale cull, after threatening to pull out of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission.
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A SENIOR Japanese official has dismissed Australia&#39;s Southern Ocean whale sanctuary as legally baseless and insisted that his country will continue taking minke whales in the area.
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A Japanese whaling ship, stranded for 10 days off the Antarctic coast after a fire, no longer posed a danger to wildlife but was staying in the frigid Southern Ocean, New Zealand rescue officials said on Monday.