Australia will call for the loophole allowing for whaling for scientific research to be closed at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission after a review of published scientific research suggested no useful science is being produced.
In 18 years Japan's scientific whaling program has produced only 43 papers. Half sought to establish whale mortality rates without a definitive result while the rest were a variety of oddities including attempting to cross-breed whales with cows.
"I challenge anyone to look at this sort of research and say it's necessary, to say it requires killing over 7000 whales... [It] is not science, it's not necessary - it's commercial whaling," said Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett.
Being an Australian i have to say that peter garret is a total toss bag. His own party doesn't agree with half the crap hey says. Let the japs keep whaling, just because we think it is bad does not mean we can impose our ideals on other people. Other countrys think guns are bad doesn't mean that australia goes around taking them off people. Hats off to Americans byes the bay, way to introduce population control the less of use the better. :) a world with out americans is a world worth living in. Cheers
As an American, I would have to disagree that the would would be better off without Americans. That is no different from saying "The world would be better off without (Jews, Blacks, Christians, Muslims, people named Todd, etc.)"
You must be confusing "Americans" with "Idiots". I won't disagree that there are a lot of idiots in America; there are also apparently idiots throughout the world, Australia included. Now the world may be a better place without racists, or people that think the all citizens/inhabitants of a country should die in order to make the world a better place...
@Source Go Australia! I'd go so far as to say the world would be better without whalers.
You are a moron! So it's out everone knows it now. First you say that the Japanese may do what they want because it's their culture then you say in effect that Americans can't do what they want.
Make up your mind.
And as far as whaling is concreaned the Japanese should be ashamed of themselves!
Don't kill no more whales! (I know I stole this line:-)).
I find that there are few situations which can't benefit from a well placed South Park reference. Well done sir.
@Japan I love your country, your spirit, I appreciate your culture, and I love sushi as much as anyone... I could eat it every day, really. But please, for the love of god, will you leave the effing whales ALONE? Hunt the giant tunas to the brink of extinction, make a tasty gingery salad from the squid and octapii, barbecue eels in a sweet delicious sauce and stick it in a can for me to buy at the international grocery mart... but please, leave the effing whales alone? Ehh? I'd like my future chirren, and my chirren's chirren to know wot an effing whale is, OK? Thank you.
Is harvesting whales in international waters. You might not realise it but whales follow global migration patterns and hence, there is only ONE whale population. Whatever Japan does affects whales globally, and affects every country, not just themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct, large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. It was discovered in the Commander Islands in 1741 by the German naturalist Georg Steller, who was traveling with the explorer Vitus Bering. A small population lived in the arctic waters around Bering Island and nearby Copper Island. However, prior to the arrival of humans they lived all along the North Pacific coast.
The sea cow grew up to 7.9 meters (25.9 ft) long[1] and weighed up to three tons,[2] much larger than the manatee or dugong. Steller's work contains two contradictory weights: 4 and 24.3 tons. The true value may lie between these figures.[3] It looked somewhat like a large seal, but had two stout forelimbs and a whale-like tail. According to Steller, "The animal never comes out on shore, but always lives in the water. Its skin is black and thick, like the bark of an old oak..., its head in proportion to the body is small..., it has no teeth, but only two flat white bones—one above, the other below". It was completely tame, according to Steller. They fed on a variety of kelp. Wherever sea cows had been feeding, heaps of stalks and roots of kelp were washed ashore.
I like the whales as much as the next guy so I'm totally behind your efforts on their behalf but someone really needs to talk to you about how you're treating your roos.
I'm Australian and I like Roos as much as the next guy, problem is there are way too many. Australian roads in the outback and up north are dangerous places to drive because of roos jumping out in front of cars. I'm not talking every few kilometers but can be every few hundred meters in places. I've recently done a 5,000 kilometer trip up the top end and it gets very tiring to have to stop every couple of minutes for cows and roos. I don't think whales cause the same havoc with shipping somehow.
Can you imagine going along in your speedboat and all of a sudden out in front of you is a Cow riding a Whale. How would you explain that to your children. I suppose it would stop world hunger if you had Sperm Whales that tasted like beef burgers.
They whale in International waters and also have been caught in AUSTRALIAN waters - we really should (take the crew off) and sink the ships when we find them there...
Your statement about Americans show you are small minded but its this part here "the less of *use* the better" that proves your brain is mush! The collective you is... you!
The absurd lies and excuses the Japanese (and a few other countries) come up with to continue the slaughter of whales has finally had some light shown on them. I don't care if the Australian is a windbag or whatever, he is RIGHT! Whale slaughter an archaic and unnecessary thing to do. But what can you expect from a culture that slaughters dolphins at a wholesale rate also? Not all Japanese feel this way, I do not mean to imply that, but some do and it's a hideous practice to slaughter any of these beautiful creatures.
