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Australia Must Monitor Japanese Whaling

IT MAY be lost in translation, but the phrase "scientific research" obviously undergoes a curious metamorphosis between Japanese and English, especially when applied to whaling in the Antarctic. Despite the global moratorium on commercial whaling imposed in 1987, Japan has continued to kill more than 1300 whales annually via a loophole that allows limited hunting for scientific research. Interestingly, two decades and thousands of slaughtered whales later, there has been little advance from all ...

Gathering True Whale Numbers

AS JAPANESE whalers begin their annual Antarctic hunt, Australian scientists are on their way to the southern ice to launch a pioneering project to count minke whales from the air.

Government Backs Whaling Case

THE Federal Government has decided to back a long-running legal case against the Japanese whale hunt in Australian Antarctic waters.

Rudd Drafts Plans To Spy On Japanese Whalers

AUSTRALIA is developing plans to monitor Japanese whaling in order to mount international legal action over the controversial Antarctic hunt.

Apathy In The Face Of A Slaughter

This morning, in the grey swells of the Southern Ocean, a pirate ship will enter the waters of the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is a black ship, bearing a black pirate flag, the Jolly Roger. For the past five days it has sailed south, so that it can take position and wait for its prey.

Antarctic Tourist Freeze Looms

The Explorer oil spill could mean far fewer Antarctic cruises, writes Mike Heard.

Diary Of A Sledger The Ice On The Cake

IT IS a verbal picture which today might be taken as evidence of global warming - a group of Australians stripping to their undies as they sledge across the icy Antarctic plateau towards the South Pole.

Polar Explorer Passes On

THE tale of the modern-day Titanic - the MS Explorer which sank in the Antarctic last week - has as much nostalgia as its 1912 counterpart.