South Korea unveils 'scientific' whaling proposalAustralia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully give their reaction (whaling footage courtesy of Greenpeace)
韓国が「調査捕鯨開始」表明 NHKニュース
韓国政府は、４日、ＩＷＣ＝国際捕鯨委員会の総会で捕鯨の再開を求める国内の漁業者の要望に応えるためとして、調査捕鯨を始める方針を初めて表明しました。 クジラの保護や捕鯨の在り方について話し合うＩＷＣのことしの年次総会は、今月２日から日本などの加盟国が出席し、中米のパナマで開かれています。 この中で、韓国政府代表団のカン・ジュンソク首席は４日、声明を発表し、「捕鯨に従事してきた漁業者やクジラによる水産資源の被害を訴える漁業者の要望に応えるため、調査捕鯨を検討している」と述べ、韓国政府として初めて調査捕鯨を始める方針を表明し、次回のＩＷＣの委員会に調査捕鯨の計画書を提出する考えを明らかにしました。 韓国が、調査捕鯨を始めることになれば、日本に次いで２か国目となります。 カン首席は「ＩＷＣの目的はクジラの適切な保護・管理と、秩序ある捕鯨産業の発展であり加盟国は文化の多様性を認めることが不可欠だ」と
Too much blubber
OpinionLeadersLetters to the editorBy InvitationCurrent topicsBritish election 2024Israel and HamasWar in UkraineUS elections 2024The World Ahead 2024Climate changeCoronavirusThe world economyThe Economist explainsArtificial intelligenceCurrent topicsBritish election 2024Israel and HamasWar in UkraineUS elections 2024The World Ahead 2024Climate changeCoronavirusThe world economyThe Economist expla
Amazon removes whale meat products from Japanese site
Environmental groups are claiming a major victory after the online retailer Amazon removed whale meat products from its site in Japan. Amazon was accused of hypocrisy by the UK-based environmental investigation agency (EIA) after investigators found 147 whale products for sale on the site, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Seattle-based company. The products contravened the firm's policy of refusin
Japan whaling fleet accused of using tsunami disaster funds
Japan's whaling fleet has left port under heavy guard as it prepares to kill almost 1,000 whales in the Antarctic, where more clashes are expected with members of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group. Three ships, led by the 720-tonne Yushin Maru and accompanied by a fisheries agency guard vessel, left Shimonoseki port in south-western Japan amid accusations that the fleet was taking cash in
WikiLeaks: Secret whaling deal plotted by US and Japan
Japan and the US proposed to investigate and act against international anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as part of a political deal to reduce whaling in Antarctic waters. Four confidential cables from the US embassy in Tokyo and the state department in Washington, released by WikiLeaks, show US and Japanese diplomats secretly negotiating a compromise agreement ahea
Sea Shepherd 'sank its own anti-whaling boat'
An estranged former member of direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd alleges it ordered its own boat to be scuttled to win public sympathy. Peter Bethune was captain of the hi-tech Ady Gil when its bow was shorn off in a collision with a Japanese whaler it was shadowing in January. It sank two days later, but Mr Bethune now alleges he was ordered to scuttle it by Sea Shepherd head Paul Wats
Anti-whaling NGOs warn of 'contaminated' whale meat
Pilot whale hunting in the Faroe Islands has been going on for generations Environmental and animal-welfare groups are urging the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to persuade the World Health Organization (WHO) to act over fears about eating whale meat. The coalition of organisations wants the WHO to issue guidelines amid fears about the safety of the meat. The groups say whale meat is highl
Greenpeace and WWF give conditional support to commercial whaling plan
Plans to overturn the 25-year old global ban on commercial whaling in return for reducing the numbers of whales killed each year were in confusion today with governments and groups divided. The 88 countries who are members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) today agreed to meet in closed session for two days in Agadir, Morocco, to decide whether to adopt a draft plan which would allow N
Japan’s Far Right Blocks Screenings of ‘The Cove’ (Published 2010)
Members of a Japanese nationalist group in Yokohama recently demanded that a local theater not show the film “The Cove.”Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times YOKOHAMA, Japan � “The Cove,” an Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin hunting in Japan, would seem to be a natural fit for movie theaters here, but so far the distributor has yet to find a single one that will screen the film. And if S
リリース、障害情報などのサービスのお知らせ
最新の人気エントリーの配信
j次のブックマーク
k前のブックマーク
lあとで読む
eコメント一覧を開く
oページを開く
Japanese town to build dolphin zoo near site of annual cull
Page not found - Asian Scientist Magazine
BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Conservation and Schrodinger's cat
Wikileaks: US Offered to Block anti-Whaling Protesters
Japan 'regrets' lack of agreement at IWC meeting
The Cove vs The Japanese Right
Secrecy of talks on whaling compromise condemned
ＩＷＣ：韓国も沿岸捕鯨再開求める文書 - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
ＥＵ：南極海捕鯨の段階的廃止要求へ ＩＷＣ年次総会で － 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Celebrities draw blood on whaling