Sentences with phrase «controversial whale hunt»
The government of Iceland announced last week that it is calling off its controversial whale hunt, not because of political pressure, but due to the lack of demand for whale meat and other whale products.
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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.
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.
In a controversial move, Iceland was allowed to rejoin in 2002 and file a formal reservation to the moratorium, which allows it to hunt whales for commercial purposes.