Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a move that has shocked conservationists, Japan has announced plans to allow the hunting of endangered fin whales. Japan has ...

Japan has killed its first fin whale in years, despite most of the world strongly opposing the decision. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Japan just announced that it killed its first fin whale in years. The ...

JAPAN, August 5, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Less than 10 days after the arrest of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson in Greenland, Japan harpoons its first endangered ...

Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call "gruesome and unnecessary". The ...

These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The recently hunted fin whale was a male measuring 19.6 m (64.3 ft) and weighing more than 55.8 metric tons, according to Japanese media. It was ...

(AP) Japan will target fewer whales when its Pacific hunt begins next week and will observe them in the Antarctic next season with the aim of resuming full-fledged commercial whaling, the fisheries ...

Japan says it's dropping plans to hunt humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica. The government's top spokesman says the decision came at the request of the United States. The U.S. is currently ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan -- Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time ...