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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Japan's whaling program is not for scientific purposes and has forbidden the granting of further permits.
The finding by a 16-judge panel at the ICJ is in favour of Australia's argument that Japan's whaling program is carried out for commercial purposes rather than scientific research.
"In light of the fact the Jarpa II [research program] has been going on since 2005, and has involved the killing of about 3,600 minke whales, the scientific output to date appears limited," said presiding judge Peter Tomka of Slovakia.
"Japan shall revoke any existent authorisation, permit or licence granted in relation to Jarpa II and refrain from granting any further permits in pursuance to the program."
Arbitrageur
reply to post by daaskapital
I never doubted for a moment that Japan was killing far more whales than would be needed for scientific purposes, so this ruling merely confirms what seemed to be extremely obvious.
What happens now? Will they actually abide by this ruling and stop killing so many whales?
While Japan has committed to abide by the court's ruling it is free to continue whaling if it withdraws from the 1986 moratorium or the 1946 treaty.
rickymouse
Think about it, a scientific venture that kills 3600 whales. How can that be Good for the whales.
BrianFlanders
rickymouse
Think about it, a scientific venture that kills 3600 whales. How can that be Good for the whales.
How many rats does science murder?
rickymouse
BrianFlanders
rickymouse
Think about it, a scientific venture that kills 3600 whales. How can that be Good for the whales.
How many rats does science murder?
Last I heard, rats or rabbits are not recovering from near extinction.
LightningStrikesHere
That's a good Victory for the the M/V Steve Irwin & the Sea Shepherd crew!
Maybe now they will get the support they deserve!!!!
Indigent
reply to post by LightningStrikesHere
Except they are not related to this ruling as Australia and New Zealand were the ones that started the process.
AlphaHawk
LightningStrikesHere
That's a good Victory for the the M/V Steve Irwin & the Sea Shepherd crew!
Maybe now they will get the support they deserve!!!!
What support is that?
If Paul Watson was black, he'd have been shot and his ships sunk for piracy.
It's great to hear this news, not that it will make a difference to the Japanese, but Sea Shepherd deserves no credit for this...two wrongs don't make a right.
We are still waiting for the full scale investigation of the whale meat scandal.
We are also still waiting for the whaling industry to pay back to money it took from the 2011 tsunami relief fund. The Japanese whaling programme costs Japanese taxpayers 1.2 billion yen every year - that's about €10 million or US$12 million - just in direct subsidies. It loses money every year and in 2011 US$30million was diverted by the government from the Fukushima recovery fund to pay off whaling industry debtors.
www.greenpeace.org...
BrianFlanders
rickymouse
BrianFlanders
rickymouse
Think about it, a scientific venture that kills 3600 whales. How can that be Good for the whales.
How many rats does science murder?
Last I heard, rats or rabbits are not recovering from near extinction.
Well, scientists could use their precious talents to fix the extinction problem instead of whining about how many whales Japan is murdering.
AlphaHawk
LightningStrikesHere
That's a good Victory for the the M/V Steve Irwin & the Sea Shepherd crew!
Maybe now they will get the support they deserve!!!!
What support is that?
If Paul Watson was black, he'd have been shot and his ships sunk for piracy.
It's great to hear this news, not that it will make a difference to the Japanese, but Sea Shepherd deserves no credit for this...two wrongs don't make a right.