Sentences with phrase «japanese whale hunts»

Paul Watson, the charismatic and controversial leader of the Sea Shepherd campaign against Japanese whale hunts, has offered a potent rebuttal tonight to allegations that he ordered the scuttling of the Ady Gil, a million - dollar anti-whaling patrol boat damaged after a collision with a Japanese ship in the southern ocean early this year.

Humane Society International, an outspoken critic of the Japanese whale hunt, issued the following statement through its president, Kitty Block: «My heart sinks each time the Japanese fleet returns to port with these magnificent animals rendered into blocks of meat pre-packed for the super-markets.

Not exact matches

It also defeated a US bid to remove restrictions on bobcat pelts, as well as Japanese efforts to engineer support for dolphin and whale hunts.

The study also refutes claims by Norwegian and Japanese whale hunters that hunting is necessary for scientific reasons, Clark argues: «This research shows that you can study these animals better alive than dead.»

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One cultural aspect is worth noting: it is curious that the Japanese hunt seems to arouse more ire than the Faeroese pilot whale hunt, which is equally gruesome.

I wonder that why Japanese so enthusiastic to hunt humpback whales and hidden it for their citizens?

Japan's whaling program has struggled financially in recent years, as more Japanese consumers turn up their noses at whale meat and as environmental activists chasing whaling boats make the hunts more difficult.

As we understand, a Japanese whaling fleet is en route to the Antarctic Ocean to hunt these mammals over the next few months for what Japan has called research purposes.

But in conversations with some Japanese diplomats who sought me out after reading my posts on the film, there was a clear sense that the Japanese government was trying to gauge American views on its whaling efforts, perhaps recognizing that its ongoing investment in, and aggressive defense of, whale hunts was creating a significant branding problem, at the very least.

The Japanese Government encourages the public to eat whale meat even though it is increasingly unpopular because it has to «save face» as it does not want to give up its right to hunt whales which would be seen as conceding defeat.

A group of eight senators sent a letter of protest today to Ryozo Kato, the Japanese ambassador to the United States, over Japan's impending whale - hunting operation near Antarctica.

Whaling is defended by some Japanese, however, who feel unfairly singled out by international criticism and who argue that the hunts are a Japanese tradition.

I had my doubts when the Oscar - winning director of «The Cove,» the searing documentary on Japan's annual slaughter of dolphins, told me he was confident that Japan's policy on whale hunts could be changed under rising pressure from within triggered in part by outside pressure — a force called gaiatsu in Japanese.

I have never heard about Japanese to hunt humpback whale from Japanese medias.

The Sea Shepherd has just launched their new vessel, known as «Gojira», to chase after Japanese whale boat harpooners who will be out hunting whales in the Antarctic Ocean.

The Sea Shepherd group has managed to intercept the ship that is supplying the Japanese vessels hunting for whales in the South Ocean.

Ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop targeting endangered fin whales, and to refrain from hunting endangered humpback whales, both violations of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).

Ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop targeting fin whales and refrain from hunting humpback whales in violation of IWC regulation 19 (a), Paragraph 10 (d), which bans the use of factory ships to process any whales except minke whales.

With instructions to hunt down - sorry, collect for «scientific research» - up to 1,000 whales, the Japanese sailors are setting their sights on the humpback whale for the first time in over 40 years.

Via:: BBC News: Japanese whalers hunt humpbacks (news website),:: The Independent: Save the whale.

When asked what people could do to become actively involved in bringing an end to the senseless thrill kills, Hammarstedt suggested hitting the Faroese in their wallets, a tactic not at all unfamiliar to Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd who are well known for their successful efforts to bankrupt rogue maritime industries including the collapsing Canadian seal hunt and illegal Japanese commercial whaling.

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Whilst the Japanese are allowed by the International Whaling Commission to hunt for an annual quota of 945 whales for scientific purposes there has been intense global pressure to prevent the whalers from being able to fill their quota.