Nine Latin America Countries Call on Japan to Stop "Scientific Whaling" in Sanctuary

This is the beginning of a new "scientific whaling" season in Antarctic waters.
The governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay made public a release stating "their strongest rejection to the announced 'scientific whaling' hunting of almost a thousand whales included some in the threatened species ...

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Japan halts Antarctic whale hunt  

Japan suspends its annual Antarctic whale hunt after activists from a US-based environmental group chase the mother ship.