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Japan’s proposal for secret
ballots was defeated 33 votes to 30 votes with one abstention. The news of the
Japan’s failed takeover of the IWC left the global conservation community
relieved, but cautious. Dr. Joth Singh, IFAW Director of Wildlife
and Habitat Protection said: “We are relieved but not relaxed
about the early voting here. So far we have managed to dodge the harpoon, but
let’s see how things go for the rest of the week.
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“We can not allow Japan to use its wealth to pressure our region into
supporting its campaign to hunt whales,” said Dr. Joth Singh of Trinidad,
Director of Wildlife and Habitat Protection with the International Fund for
Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ). “Whale
watching is now a US$10-million industry across the Caribbean.
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IFAW’s Emergency Relief Team is working with CARE, a local animal welfare
group, to provide veterinary care to livestock and other animals in the
villages, south of Yogyakarta, which were flattened in the
earthquake. In the two weeks since the earthquake, animals treated
by the team include: 3,977 cattle, 1,992 sheep, 150 pigs, 125 water buffalo, 46
dogs, 10 horses, 43 cats and thousands of chickens and ducks. The
team of 27 includes veterinarians, animal rehabilitators and veterinary students
-- all working closely with local government veterina
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Tension will be particularly high, as Japan may have amassed enough pro-whale
votes within the IWC to control the simple majority, though narrowly, through
what it calls its “vote consolidation” program.
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These findings come just weeks
before the June 16-20th, 2006 annual meeting of the International Whaling
Commission (IWC) in St. Kitts, at which Japan is expected to campaign strongly
for its whaling activities.
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The Dominica Hotel and Tourism Association (DHTA) officially released the
statement on behalf of the group, which is made up of representatives from
conservation organizations and the eco-tourism industry across the Caribbean.
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In 1986, the IWC implemented a global moratorium on whale hunting. Japan
continues to hunt whales arguing that the IWC permits lethal whale research.
Hence, it classifies its whaling operations as “scientific” despite
acknowledging that the meat and blubber from the whales it hunts are processed
and sold commercially in Japan. Experts say Japan is misinterpreting the rules.
“Japan continues to snub international law and opinion by sending out its
ships to kill whales,” said Dr. Joth Singh, Director of Wildlife and Habitat
Protection with IFAW.
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“While we applaud the Hong Kong, Province of China customs officers who
made this discovery,” said Dr. Joth Singh, Director of Wildlife and Habitat
Protection with IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org), “IFAW is outraged that massive
illegal ivory hauls of this size continue to be trafficked internationally
despite the ivory trade ban. It is clear that the global community just doesn’t
have the capacity to enforce either the trade, or the protection of elephants.
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The elephants have been taken to the training facility of Elephants For
Africa Forever (EFAF), a centre which notoriously supplies “tamed and trained”
elephants to elephant-back safari tourism operations throughout South
Africa.
Permits allowing the capture were issued by Limpopo Province and, according
to the main shareholder of Selati Game Reserve from where the animals were
taken; the event was monitored by a senior representative of the National
Council of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA).
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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has already demonstrated their
inability to manage this hunt this year, with the Gulf of St. Lawrence component
going almost 20 percent over the quota set by the Department of Fisheries and
Oceans (DFO). There is no penalty for going over the quota and DFO is not
adjusting today’s hunt quota to reflect the overrun.
“This cruel and unnecessary hunt is a mismanaged mess,” said Olivier Bonnet,
IFAW’s Canadian director.
“DFO is utterly incapable of effectively regulating and managing this
slaughter.
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