Australian campaigners to bring court case in a tender to prevent whaling season from going aheadEnvironmental campaigners in Australia have mounted a fresh attempt to prevent Japan from killing hundreds of whales in the Antarctic this winter,as officials in Tokyo indicated they would ignore an international ban on the country’s “scientific” expeditions imposed final year.
The Australian branch of Humane Society International claims that Kyodo Senpaku, the Japanese firm that conducts the controversial hunts, and is in contempt of court after ignoring a 2008 federal court injunction not to slaughter the animals in a whale sanctuary declared by the Australian government.
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Source: theguardian.com