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Salty shepherds [1]

THE Southern Ocean is usually one of the world's loneliest shipping lanes. This month it has turned into an unseemly battleground over a bid by Australia's government and various environmental groups to stop Japan hunting and slaughtering whales. Japan aims to kill more than 900 minke and 50 fin whales from a region bordering Antarctica by mid-April.

Publication Date: 
26/01/2008
Economist (London) [2]
Tags:
Whales [3], Greenpeace [4], Japan [5], Australia [6]
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