Get Tough On Whale Culling, Say Experts
May 9, 2007 @ 10:32 AM (EST)
Source: Iol.co.za
Law experts on Monday urged anti-whaling nations to end years of fruitless diplomatic pressure on Japan to stop scientific culling and use international courts to halt Tokyo.
As the International Whaling Commission annual conference got underway in Alaska, a group of law experts commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) urged Australia and other like-minded countries to get tougher with Japan...
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