Sentences with phrase «annual whale hunt»

Unable to hunt seals on the melting ice, hungry polar bears have been coming into villages to feed off scraps and bones during the annual whale hunt.

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Tokyo's decades - old and disputed «scientific whaling» program suffered a blow in March when the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a surprise ruling, ordered a halt to annual hunts in the Southern Ocean.

Some Alaska Native peoples continue by tradition to hunt bowhead and beluga whales on a subsistence level, with low annual bowhead total quotas set by the International Whaling Commission in conjunction with individual village limits set by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

I tweeted earlier today about Japan's whaling fleet, which is setting a course for the Southern Ocean in the annual hunt (this year for close to 1,000 whales) that the country characterizes as scientific research, with any questions about cuts in government support still pending.

Japan may get the right to kill whales in its coastal waters in return for scaling back its controversial annual hunts, cast as scientific research, near Antarctica.

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.

Japan was prepared to curtail the hunt from its current annual maximum quota of 935 minke whales and 50 fins down to a few hundred minkes - perhaps 200 in 10 years» time - and to five fins, which many believed could easily be negotiated away.

Iceland's annual minke whale hunt is currently underway.

Despite the moratorium on whaling, Japan is allowed an annual «scientific» hunt, arguing whaling is a cherished tradition and the hunt is necessary to study whales.

Today they're hunted by Iceland, Norway and Japan, whose annual quota is now 935 whales.

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.