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<title>Is It Hump Day Already?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Japan's oft-criticized "scientific" whaling fleet will be extra busy this season as it aims to land up to 1,035 whales in what could be the country's largest whale hunt in modern times. Included in the toll: up to 50 humpback whales, the first time they've been targeted in some 40 years.]]></description>
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<title>Anti - Whaler Nations Give Japan a Warning</title>
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<description><![CDATA['The Japanese whaling program next year envisages killing humpback whales. Humpbacks are one of the most iconic whale species. I know this program is going to generate enormous hostility from round the world,'' he said. New Zealand would voice its opposition to the program with the Japanese at the IWC's next annual meeting, in Alaska in May, he told New Zealand's National Radio.]]></description>
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<title>Japan's Blue Whale and Minke Whale Hunt Ends</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Japanese say they take only Minke Whales but Blue have been taken too: The country admitted yesterday that this year's hunt - due to kill 945 whales by mid-March - will probably have to be abandoned as a result of a fire that has crippled its fleet's mother ship, the Nisshin Maru, and raised fears of an oil spill into the area's pristine waters]]></description>
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<title>Science/Nature _ Iceland begins commercial whaling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The fisheries ministry said hunting could begin as early as next week, and suggested the meat may be exported, which could prove a contentious suggestion as the trade is heavily restricted under international law.]]></description>
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<title>Japan wins first pro-whaling vote in two decades</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A majority of nations at the International Whaling Commission approved a non-binding declaration that criticized a 1968 moratorium on commercial whaling, blamed whales for depleting fish stocks and said nongovernmental organizations were a threat.]]></description>
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<title>Greenland seeks to hunt humpback, bowhead whales</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anti-whaling nations attending an International Whaling Commission, or IWC, meeting in the Caribbean island state of St Kitts and Nevis said they were opposed to the proposal given the fragile state of most whale species.]]></description>
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<title>Japan defeated on whaling, green groups relieved</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Japan suffered a resounding defeat on Friday at the International Whaling Commission, calming fears among conservationists that might finally win enough support in the world body to start attacking a ban on whaling. "So far we have managed to dodge the harpoon," said Joth Singh, director of wildlife and habitat protection for the International Fund for Animal Welfare.]]></description>
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<title>Japanese seize control of whaling commission</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While the world has been looking the other way, the Japanese have spent nearly a decade and many millions of dollars building up a voting majority in the IWC, by buying the votes of small member states with substantial foreign aid packages.]]></description>
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<title>Japanese fishers flee whaling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Japanese fishing companies are giving up their whaling fleet under pressure from a consumer campaign, Greenpeace claims. But the operator of Japan's program, the government-backed Institute of Cetacean Research, vowed to redouble its efforts to maintain the only ocean-going whaling fleet in the world.]]></description>
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<title>Dead whale left outside Japanese embassy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace hauled the fin whale to Berlin from the Baltic coast after finding it beached on a sandbank.]]></description>
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<title>Japanese whaler harpoon in near-miss with protesters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Japanese whaling harpoon narrowly missed an inflatable boat carrying environmental protesters, causing one to fall into the freezing sea, as both sides warn their face-off is becoming increasingly dangerous.]]></description>
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<title>Australia urges calm in southern whale protests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise has been shadowing the Japanese whaling fleet for several weeks in a bid to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt.]]></description>
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<title>Greenpeace: Japan resumes whaling after escape bid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace said the Japanese fleet managed to resume whaling later on Saturday and had killed five whales. Due to rough seas Greenpeace said it was unable to launch its inflatable boats to try and disrupt the whaling.]]></description>
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<title>Japanese whalers and Greenpeace in remote ocean battle</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Japanese whaling fleet and Greenpeace environmental activists are involved in a stand-off in the remote Southern Ocean near the coast of Antarctica with the two sides accusing each other of ramming their vessels.]]></description>
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