Sentences with phrase «over whale hunting»

Australian government has gotten more vocal about taking Japan to court over their whale hunting that they claim is for scientific research - a loophole that allows them to avoid restrictions on whaling.

The seemingly unbridgeable divide over whale hunting that was on display earlier this week at the 62nd meeting of the International Whaling Commission had as much to do with clashing cultures as international politics or other factors.

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For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

For the foreseeable future, the battle over whales will continue to play out with unregulated hunts, dangerous zodiac chases, and freezers full of aging whale meat.

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Once hunted almost to extinction, Humpback whales are making a comeback the world over.

Black explained the hunt can take anywhere from an hour to a few hours, as the mother gray whale desperately tries to protect her calf, using her tail to fight back and rolling over belly - up with the calf on top.

Although they may get lucky and see them a couple of times over the entire summer, they certainly won't be seeing them on a near - daily basis like we do along the western edge of the San Juan Islands in the prime killer whale hunting and feeding area.

«The gray whale population has gotten bigger over the last 20 years and the killer whales have gotten better at hunting the gray whale calves,» she said.

So while you guys were jamming with the humpback, over in Agadir, Morocco, the usual suspects, brought together every year for decades now, were realizing that there was no way to cut a hoped - for deal to allow some sanctioned, but controlled, whaling in place of the current hunts by three countries.

With Japan's whale hunt in stormy southern seas wrapped for the season, the battle over efforts by a handful of countries to expand whale hunts has shifted to Iceland.

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.

«Whale curry» made its debut as a takeaway business in Tokyo, attracting curious customers who seldom have the meat amid an international row over hunting the giant mammals.]

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.

Waitrose and Marks & Spencer protested to the Icelandic government over its decision in January 2009 to resume commercial whaling, including a hunt for endangered fin 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.

Every once in a while there's some good news on the endangered species front: A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has discovered an undetermined number of North Atlantic right whales, in an area where it was thought they had been hunted nearly extinction over a hundred years ago: The whales were discovered by using a series of underwater hydrophones to record the sound of the whales over hundreds of miles of ocean.

Still, the raised quota represents an increase of 45 percent over last year's, even overtaking Japan's lofty whale hunting allowance.Demand For Whale is Down, And the Quota is Up According to a report from EcoAgência, folks from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), aren't quite sure why Norway would increase their self - imposed whale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunwhale hunting allowance.Demand For Whale is Down, And the Quota is Up According to a report from EcoAgência, folks from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), aren't quite sure why Norway would increase their self - imposed whale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunWhale is Down, And the Quota is Up According to a report from EcoAgência, folks from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), aren't quite sure why Norway would increase their self - imposed whale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunwhale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunters.