Japan started hunting whales for cash again on 1 July EIAimage
ALL pretence of being “scientific” has now been dropped. On 30 June, Japan formally left the , which sets global rules for whale conservation. On 1 July, .
The minke was Japan’s first whale caught in an openly commercial operation for 31 years. The country has hunted whales in that time under the pretext of scientific research, but it has long petitioned to return to commercial whaling. When its last proposal was voted down by the IWC in September, Japan…
