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Japanese Whaling Fleet Kill Mother Whale and Her Calf

By Manila Ryce
Published Thursday, February 7th, 2008, 12:03 pm
Filed under: World: Asia, Videos: News, Videos: Political, Science and Technology, World Issues, Environment, Videos

Update: The original video was taken down by the BBC for some reason, but here’s one with even more footage of the incident

WPvideo 1.10

The Australian government has captured footage of a Japanese whaling fleet killing a mother minke whale and her calf. Hopefully these images can pressure the Japanese government into following international law.

Sign this Greenpeace petition for whales to be shot with Canons, not harpoons.

On a completely unrelated note: Romney dropped out of the race today, but let’s not pretend like that makes any difference by wasting an entire post on it.

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4 Responses to “Japanese Whaling Fleet Kill Mother Whale and Her Calf”

  1. […] such a great photo opportunity when your whaling ships just harpoon a mother and calf, is it? (the link goes to a site with a YouTube video of it; this link goes to a high-res photo of […]

    The English Guy’s Personal Blog » Blog Archive » Japanese Whaling, for Scientific Reasons
    02/7/08 at 3:08 pm

  2. Should I waste a comment not talking about it?

    :-)

    Comrade Kevin
    02/7/08 at 6:30 pm

  3. The miserable ‘net cops’ have cut the video. Not sure what is more sickening, the harpooning of whales or ‘freedom of hypocrisy.’

    camelien
    02/8/08 at 7:16 am

  4. Thanks for the heads up camelien. I’ve replaced the video with another of the incident.

    Manila Ryce
    02/8/08 at 11:48 am

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