Sentence examples for kill whales from inspiring English sources

Japan uses a loophole in the 1986 IWC moratorium on commercial whaling to kill whales for what it claims is vital scientific research.

Both Iceland and Norway are countries that kill whales by formally objecting to the whaling moratorium approved by the IWC.

Commercial whaling was banned by the whaling commission in 1986, but Japan has continued to kill whales under an exemption for scientific research.

Although Norway and Iceland (which did not agree to the moratorium) also kill whales, Japan is the lone nation to claim it is whaling for scientific purposes.

Having reduced the Japanese nation to submission, the occupying Allied powers turned decommissioned Japanese vessels into whaling ships, and – with western observers aboard – were sent out to kill whales and use their meat to feed a starving nation.

Although IWC enacted a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, one provision in its conventions allows member nations to kill whales for research.

Japan has to stop capturing and killing whales under its whaling program in the Antarctic, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said.

Japan has to stop capturing and killing whales under its whaling program in the Antarctic, called JARPA II, the International Court of Justice has said.

Japan gets around the Southern Ocean commercial whaling ban by killing whales for "scientific research".

Australia will argue that Tokyo's scientific research programme - under which it kills whales - is commercial whaling in disguise.

Japan is likely to face international criticism at a whaling summit this week for killing whales in the Southern Ocean in defiance of a court ruling.