Posted on 06/01/2010 2:51:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Australia has filed a complaint against Japan at the world court in The Hague to stop Southern Ocean scientific whaling, the International Court of Justice said on Tuesday.
In the filing, Australia said Japan was violating the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) by killing whales for research purposes.
Commercial whaling was banned under a 1986 moratorium, but Japan still culls whales for what it says is research.Whaling has been a thorny issue between the two trading partners, though both in the past have vowed not to let it affect their relations, which include growing military and security cooperation.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose popularity is slipping ahead of elections later this year, in February set Japan a November deadline to halt whaling, which his Labour government has now pre-empted
Watson believes passionately about protecting these magnificent creatures. We all have egos, as anyone reading some of these posts must realize.
He clearly believes passionately about making theater about protecting whales. Theater in which he is the leading character like he couldn’t be in Greenpeace.
Read the title of this thread and you will realize what he accomplished by making a big stink about the matter. Big stink, theater, bet you won’t miss the premier of Whale Wars tonight!
The last line of the article tells more than the title.
Cap’n Paul has saved how many whales?
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