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Subject Japan, Norway and allies vote down South Atlantic whale sanctuary - South Korea steps in too

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/mps-condemn-south-korea-whaling-plans-20120705-21ib1.html

South Korea flagged plans to resume whaling after more than 20 years.

The revelation at the International Whaling Commission talks in Panama has raised the ire of animal welfare groups

A South Korean delegate to the IWC meeting, Kang Joon-Suk, said his government was considering whaling for scientific research because the minke whale population had recovered since the moratorium began

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Australia campaigner Matthew Collis said it would lead to the slaughter of whales when they already face more threats than ever before.

"There is simply no humane way to kill a whale," Mr Collis said in a statement.
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[b]South Korea backs down on whaling[/b]
July 13, 2012

SOUTH Korea has dropped plans for whaling

the Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan told him of the change of heart at a meeting in Cambodia yesterday.

''I was very heartened that he indicated to me that plans for scientific whaling, as it's called, would not proceed,'' Senator Carr told the ABC. ''I acknowledge the nation's responsiveness and leadership.''

The shift is a defeat for the South Korean Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, whose officials last week unveiled the plan to take minke whales off the country's coast.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/south-korea-backs-down-on-whaling-20120712-21yv4.html

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Original Message An idea raised by several South American countries to create a haven for whales in the South Atlantic was shot down Monday at the International Whaling Commission.

"You can't really believe that Nauru or Tuvalu has an interest or has studied the sanctuary. They are voting because Japan tells them to," Jose Truda Palazzo, who spearheaded the proposal and now works at the Cetacean Conservation Center in Brazil

Japan and its allies contended that the move was simply unnecessary.

The protected zone would have spanned the waters between South America and Africa south of the equator, touching the edges of an existing sanctuary in the Antarctic. If approved, it would have been the third active sanctuary created by the international commission since its founding, covering breeding grounds for all large whales in the South Atlantic.

Activists argued that it would create a seamless safe zone for migrating whales.

The South Atlantic sanctuary was first suggested in 1999 but has been repeatedly blocked by whaling countries. Japan led other countries in a walkout over the proposed sanctuary last year, leaving the International Whaling Commission short of the quorum needed to even hold a vote.
Under commission rules, three-fourths of the countries represented in it had to agree to create the sanctuary.

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