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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9548
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment

Appeal to Japan not to hunt whales

Brussels, 21/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - As certain countries had previously done (US, Australia and New Zealand), environmental organisations and the European Commission called on Japan on Tuesday 20 November not to hunt whales. Japanese boats are planning on killing 1,000 whales by April 2008 in the South Pacific. In an effort to get round the international moratorium on whale hunting, which was set up in 1986, Japan has affirmed that this fishing is for scientific reasons. The Commission...

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