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Humane Society International program manager Alexia Wellbelove said: "With both the international courts and Australia's federal court condemning Japan's actions, it is time the international community at IWC strongly criticise Japan for its so-called 'scientific' whaling program".

Last year, Lewis who's known professionally as Whistler's Sista competed at IWC, the world's foremost whistling competition, and took home the champion's trophy, cementing her place as the world's best whistler.

Last year Molly who's known professionally as Whistler's Sista competed at IWC, the world's foremost whistling competition, and took home the champion's trophy, cementing her place as the world's best whistler.

Also on the agenda at the IWC meeting in Slovenia is a resolution put forward by Australia that would require Japan to get approval from the IWC for its "scientific" quotas.

Mr Schmitten says that there was a real advance at the IWC this year towards a resumption of commercial whaling.

And every year at the IWC's meeting, pro- and anti-whaling camps gather in sullen deadlock.

The sanctuary vote is being seen as a precursor to a touchstone debate at the IWC conference in Portoroz, Slovenia, over an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling last March that Japan's whaling in the Southern Ocean violated the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.

At the IWC's meeting this year, for instance, Britain's fisheries minister, Elliot Morley, claimed that there were "no reliable stock estimates to suggest an abundant whale species", thus contradicting the IWC's own scientists, who have endorsed the pro-whalers' estimates for the minke population.

Politics is already a challenge at the IWC, where small nations sometimes trade votes for economic benefit.

But discussions to limit Japan's hunts broke down at the IWC meeting, when Japan and conservation-minded nations could not agree on the size of future catches, or the proposal's overall plan to phase out hunting altogether.

A deal, this week or at the next IWC meeting in May, seemed possible.