Activists have called Japan's programme "an illegal whale hunt" Japanese hunters caught and killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of its Antarctic summer "field survey". A report sent to the ...

They’re on the list of animals that is classified as “vulnerable to extinction,” but despite that, Japan has added them to the list of whales permitted to be hunted by Japanese commercial ...

Japanese whaling mother ship ... Watson has also featured in the reality television series “Whale Wars.” According to his organization, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF), more than ...

It also conducts hunts in the name of science in the Northwest Pacific, where it killed 132 whales in 2013, and off the Japanese coast, where it caught 92. While the commission's scientific ...

In 2014, the international court of justice ordered a temporary halt to the annual slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean, finding that the Japanese program known as Jarpa II was not for ...

The Greens are calling for the Albanese government to immediately confirm with the Japanese consulate whether Japanese whaling "research" vessels are ...

Humpback whales inhabit waters around the world, including off the Japanese archipelago. Adults can measure 15 meters and weigh 40 tons. To catch prey, humpback whales normally lunge at schools of ...