Whaling extended for Alaska Eskimos
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The International Whaling Commission on Tuesday approved extending bowhead whaling quotas for Alaska Eskimos for subsistence hunting.
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Tribal leaders have denounced the killing of a gray whale and sent representatives to Washington to assure the stateâs politicians that the hunt was not approved.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - Inuit hunters will be able to kill nearly one-third more polar bears in Nunavut this year because of concerns that an increasing number of the predators are prowling the streets of some Arctic communities.
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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.
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A fragment of a weapon used by commercial whalers in the 1800s was found in a massive bowhead whale caught off Alaska last month, suggesting it may be more than a century old, officials said Tuesday.
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The indigenous peoples of the Arctic are told their culture will be threatened by climate warming.
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The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.
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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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Description: Conditions in the Bering Sea make any rescue attempt challenging for the Coast Guard in Alaska, which has responded to the grounded freighter near the Aleutian Islands.
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A search is underway around Maria Island on the east coast of the Australian state of Tasmania to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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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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By RAY LILLEY  WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds Friday, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
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Weapon fragments found inside a 50-ton whale killed of the Alaskan coast puts the animal's age at up to 130 years.
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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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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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The International Whaling Commission holds its annual talks in Alaska next week amid pressure to end an impasse over commercial and scientific whaling threatening the conservation of the gentle giants.