Environment By Laura Dattaro Here’s one thing successive Japanese governments seem to agree on: Japan should be able to go out and kill a lot of whales. On Monday, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) rejected Japan‘s proposal to kill 4,000 whales in the Antarctic over the next 12 years. But the commission has no power to stop Japan from conducting a hunt anyway. A panel convened by the Commission found that Japan did not provide enough evidence for its claim that the hunt was for scientific purposes, one of the few legal exceptions to a worldwide ban on commercial whaling issued in 1986. […]
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