Japan gains first whaling victory (BBC)

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, St Kitts

Delegates at the International Whaling Commission have voted in favour of a resolution endorsing a return to commercial whaling.

The meeting on the Caribbean island of St Kitts backed the declaration by a majority of just one.

This is the outcome that Japan and its pro-whaling allies have been working towards since the meeting began.

But anti-whaling countries have indicated that they will challenge the legality of the ruling.
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Brazil and New Zealand immediately contested the legality of the vote, while Japan declared it a historic day, the first step towards the eventual lifting of the global moratorium which has been in place for 20 years.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5093350.stm
(on edit: There are several links on the upper right of that page, INCLUDING FEEDBACK.)

There's already another thread on this in LNB: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2344454&mesg_id=2344454

Be sure to K&R there, so this gets wider attention.

why shouldn't Japan try it on for size?

until they kill every last whale on earth! :mad: This makes me so mad I could just SCREAM!!

Think I'll see if I can do a stint with Sea Sheperd in the near future.