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The first minke whale in Japan’s controversial new commercial whale hunt has been landed at Kushiro port in northern Japan

Conservation groups and celebrities collectively call for an ‘international whaling intervention’ to be staged at the G20 summit in Osaka as summit host Japan prepares to launch a renewed commercial whaling programme

Japan’s plan to hunt whales within its own economic waters might lead to more whale meat exports from Iceland and Norway

There’s little as breathtaking as seeing whales in their natural environment and no better place in which to appreciate the sheer, quiet grandeur of them. Ethical, harmless whale watching is steadily on the rise, offering local communities an alternative, non-lethal source of revenue related to them.

Avoiding any products containing endangered animals as they contribute towards the unsustainable exploitation of threatened animal species.

Despite abandoning the international treaty dedicated to the conservation of whales in order to officially resume commercial whaling from July 2019, Japanese vessels have left port for one final commercially motivated hunt in the name of science.