NZ, Australia to team up for whaling 'big hit' (Japan whaling "not sustainable")

[Barrett808]

Source: The Dominion Post

NZ, Australia to team up for whaling 'big hit'
By NATHAN BEAUMONT - The Dominion Post | Friday, 08 February 2008

The New Zealand Government will team up with its Australian counterpart to organise a "big hit" on Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Australia's case is gathering momentum after its government yesterday said it had legal evidence to back its fight to stop Japan whaling in the Southern Ocean.

The evidence centres around photographs taken by the crew from Australian Customs vessel Oceanic Viking of a dying mother minke whale and its calf being hauled aboard a Japanese whaler.

Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick was on a fact-finding mission of her own at a South Pacific Whale Research Consortium meeting in Auckland yesterday, to strengthen the Government's case to ban whaling when it attends the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in Chile in June.

Results from the consortium's satellite tagging research programme showed whale numbers were extremely vulnerable. Japan's annual research programme, which allows for the killing of nearly 1000 whales, was also found to be not sustainable.

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[LakeSamish706]

1. I hope the put a very quick stop to this shit, there is absolutely no need for it. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

2. Hoping so fervently that Australia and New Zealand will NEVER BACK DOWN on this issue.

Whatever it takes to turn the whalers away from this filthy pursuit should be in play. It's far too late for them to continue this barbarism. They need to recognize those days MUST be over. Permanently.

Obviously, the respect and good regard from the rest of the world is unimportant to them, so directness is going to be appropriate.

[ladjf]

3. Other governments in the whaling commission need to help

Australia and New Zealand. Is there any governments anywhere that have enough sense to put a stop to this larceny and cruelty?