Sentence examples for whaling effort from inspiring English sources

(Japan also has a smaller research whaling effort in the North Pacific that was not covered by ICJ's ruling).

Japan devised a New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean in response to a March 2014 ruling by the International Court of Justice that the previous research whaling effort did not comply with the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.

TOKYO Japan's scientific whaling effort has cost taxpayers $378 million since 1987, even as demand for whale meat has shrunk and the research has proven of little value, according to a report released here on 5 February by the International Fund for Animal Welfare IFAWW).

Granted, there are lots more Norwegians and Japanese than Inupiat Eskimos, the Japanese "scientific" whaling effort is more about sushi than science, and none of us want to put whale populations in danger.

Japan's whaling effort has cost taxpayers a total of $378 million since 1987 and produced very little valuable research, according to a new report.

But the country's lethal scientific whaling effort seems poised to resume with the 2015 to 2016 Southern Ocean hunting season anyway.

Many foreign governments and environmental groups opposed to Japan's stepped-up whaling efforts might have found the cuisine a bit, well, hard to swallow.

TOKYO The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will once again be harassing Japan's research whaling efforts in Antarctic waters over the next few months, Scott West, an organization official said here today.

The Japanese agree to cease their whaling efforts and start slaughtering cows and chickens, storming farms full of the animals.

The trio are captured and brought to Japan, where Emperor Akihito tells them retaliation for the bombing of Hiroshima is the primary motive for Japan's whaling efforts.

Iceland and Norway, emboldened by ongoing negotiations to undo the whaling ban, have recently ramped up their illegal whaling efforts to lock in higher quotas that will be made possible under this new agreement.