Japan pokusava da prosiri lov na kitove u "naucne svrhe

• 0Niko još nije pohvalio poruku.
  Registruj se da bi pohvalio/la poruku!

Japan hit for trying to widen scientific whale hunt

By Jon Herskovitz
1 hour, 11 minutes ago

ULSAN, South Korea (Reuters) - Japan's whaling ambitions were dealt a symbolic blow on Wednesday when the
International Whaling Commissionvoted to urge Tokyo to cut its scientific whale hunt.

Although the vote puts more political pressure on Japan, it will be still able to expand its scientific whaling as the project is not regulated by commission rules. Critics say Japan's program is a commercial hunt dressed up as data collection.

The resolution passed by a majority vote in Ulsan -- a former whaling port in the southeast of the Korean peninsula -- is just one of several dozen passed over the years at commission meetings that have chastised Japan for its scientific whaling program.

"This means that Japan has no moral authority to go whaling in the southern ocean," said Chris Carter, New Zealand's conservation minister.

"It is a statement that a majority of countries at the IWC do not support scientific whaling, which we see as a cover for commercial whaling," Carter told Reuters.

vodje


Japan vows to increase whale cull despite condemnation

1 hour, 18 minutes ago

ULSAN, South Korea (AFP) - Japan vowed to increase its research whaling programme and extend it to two threatened species, despite condemnation by the International Whaling Commission.

The body voted by 30 to 27 in favour of an Australian proposal urging Japan to drop the plan to double its hunt from some 440 minke whales a year and to include both endangered fin whales and humpbacks, listed as "vulnerable".

The vote, however, is non-binding and Akira Nakamae of Japan's fisheries ministry said afterwards "we will implement the JARPA" scientific whaling plan.

Joji Morishita, the head of the Japanese delegation, said he was pleased with the level of Japan's support.

vodje

• 0Niko još nije pohvalio poruku.
  Registruj se da bi pohvalio/la poruku!

Leggy.
Molim za prevod Vaseg teksta, ako je moguce.

Za sada mogu samo izneti svoje licno misljenje da ce se uvek naci oni kojima nista nije sveto i koji ce naci razna opravdanja za unistenje zivog sveta na zemlji.

• 0Niko još nije pohvalio poruku.
  Registruj se da bi pohvalio/la poruku!

Ne razumem ljude koji ne vide da ce svojim postupcima unistiti kitove. Iako su ugrozena vrsta oni se i dalje love sto ce nazalost dovesti do njihovog izumiranja, kao i mnogih drugih vrsta :-(