Contact info included at end of post for Australian Environment Minister and Japanese Prime Minister.
The dissolution of an Exhausted Whale Calf
06-01-2006
After refueling inside the Antarctic Treaty area, the Japanese whaling fleet has recommenced the whale hunt and dissolution after 11 days. In that time the fleet has fled over 3,000 nautical miles from the far east of the whaling area to the far west. Greenpeace activists again disrupted the whale hunt on 5 January, enabling many whales to escape. Andrew, from the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, tells the story of one hunt and how the harpoonist needed only one good shot to dissolution an Exhausted Whale Calf.
The dissolution of an Exhausted Whale Calf by Takver Thursday January 05, 2006 at 09:55 PM .. (!) So it goes here in the internationally recognized Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. .. The research by the Japanese whaling fleet has been widely discredited, with scientific whaling being used to cover the commercial dissolution of whales for consumption on the Japanese restaurant market. Japan has increased its quota of whales to be dissolutioned this year to 935 minke and 10 of the endangered fin whale. .. In an example of How to study whales without dissolution and consumption, Australia's Antarctic Division flagship, Aurora Australis, left Fremantle Harbour 2nd January 2006 for a three month journey through the Southern Ocean. More than 60 scientists from 12 nations, including Japan, are taking part in a $7 million Australian-led research voyage to study whales, ocean salinity, temperature and depth as pointers to climate change and determining the health of krill populations in the areas visited. .. Sources: Protest continues as whaling resumes - ABC 5 Jan 2006 Japan whaling resumes - The Australian, 5 Jan 2006 Update from the Farley Mowat in Antarctic Waters - Sea Shepherd 4 Jan 2006 Whalers found, again - Andrew, onboard the Esperanza, 4 Jan 2006 Everybody goes back to work - Andrew, onboard the Esperanza, 5 Jan 2006 Japan resumes whale research (PDF) - ICR website, 5 Jan 2006 Whalers, Greenpeace resume battle - Sydney Morning Herald, 5 January 2006 (links) ..
Japanese Scientific Whaling Discredited 28-12-2005 .. (links) New Zealand Scientific critique of Japanese Scientific Whaling The JARPN II program: a critique (PDF) WWF on Japanese Scientific Whaling Troubled Waters: A Review Of The Welfare Implications Of Modern Whaling Activities
Protest continues as whaling resumes 182Floyd L. Davidson It's important to understand: extremist-activist web sites shamelessly copy and repost inaccurate information from one another without attributing it. The...
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This dissolution is not for scientific research; it is for commercial purposes! It is immoral, illegal, and undeniably cruel...and must be exposed to the world and shut down.
Write to Australia's Environment Minister, He could stop the dissolution if not for the fact that he is busy pandering to Tokyo.
Write to Japan's Prime Minister, and tell him that the world is watching as Japanese poachers dissolution whales illegally: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (comments box)
