Ban on commercial whaling likely to stay
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Despite passing a symbolic resolution to overturn a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling last year, it is unlikely that there will be enough support to formally end it when the International Whaling Commission meets here Monday.
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Hiroshi Kobayashi has been hunting whales for three years now. He knows just where to look, and boasts that, in season, he has a close-to-perfect record of finding them. But he's never killed one &#151; he captains a whale-watching boat for tourists. And he thinks whaling is, or should be, a thing of the past.
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Japan is due to again seek to wrest control of the 70-nation International Whaling Commission, which is currently preventing Tokyo resuming commercial whaling.
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New Zealand authorities are waiting for crew aboard a crippled Japanese whaling ship to decide whether they need to be towed out of the area, or will remain and continue whaling.
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Rescue teams are confident of saving most surviving whales from a pod beached off Tasmania&#39;s east coast - the second mass stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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A five-year whaling quota for  indigenous people in the United States and Russia was renewed  by an international whaling body on Tuesday, allowing Native  Alaskans to keep hunting bowhead whales for subsistence  purposes.
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Japan has warned it does not rule out quitting the International Whaling Commission if the divided group does not allow whaling within several years.
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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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The International Whaling  Commission renewed a five-year whaling quota for indigenous  people in the United States and Russia on Tuesday, allowing  Alaska Natives to continue hunting bowhead whales for  subsistence purposes.
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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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The government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list the beluga sturgeon six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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Officials from 75 nations begin on Monday 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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Japan is set to abandon whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The International Whaling Commission renewed a five-year whaling quota for indigenous people in the United States and Russia on Tuesday, allowing Alaska Natives to continue hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The International Whaling Commission renewed a five-year whaling quote for indigenous people in the United States and Russia on Tuesday, allowing Alaska Natives to continue hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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An Australian judge Tuesday granted an activist group's request to ban a Japanese company from whaling in an Australian-declared animal sanctuary off Antarctica.
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Plans to hunt up to 50 humpback whales put on hold amid pressure from Australia