Whaling wars between Japanese ships and environmental groups offshore Antartica
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South Pole Japanese Whale Wars
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Dolphins being massacred poisoning the Japanese who eat them
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At the heart of a Japanese nature reserve, a horror story is unfolding.
Over the coming months, thousands of dolphins - some only a few days old - will be hacked to death. Hundreds more will be sold into captivity, where they will die lingering deaths from stress and disease.
The dolphins are captured and slaughtered just off the southern Japanese fishing village of Taiji.
Protests or not, Japan keeps eating whale
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As diners sit down to lunches of whale meat in Tokyo and elsewhere across the nation, Japan's whaling fleet is on its annual hunt in the Antarctic, drawing protests from environmental groups, international governments and whale-lovers worldwide. So why does Tokyo persist?
Why shouldn't it, many Japanese say.
Whale Wars
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Japan accuses Animal Planet of ecoterrorism! Japanese have been hunting whales in the Artic for many years, having killed thousands of these now endangered species. Now a special on Animal Planet showcases one group's efforts to stop them.
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A little Bit of Korean Whaling History
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it would have been surprising if Korea hadnt been involved in Whaling so this is a "Did you Know?" type post.
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Japanese scientists teach whale to "talk"
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Scientists in Japan have given a beluga whale a vocabulary of three words, the first time a marine creature has been able to link a sound to an object and then repeat the sound as a 'word'. Nack, a 23-year-old beluga whale at the Kamogawa Sea World aquarium in Chiba Prefecture, has been taught to make different noises for a bucket, diving goggles and a pair of diving fins.
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