Australian
campaigners to bring court case in a bid to prevent whaling season from going
ahead
Justin McCurry in
Tokyo
Wednesday
28 October 2015 04.45 GMTLast modified on Wednesday 28 October
201504.46 GMT
Environmental
campaigners in Australia have mounted a fresh attempt to prevent Japan from killing hundreds of whales in
the Antarctic this winter, as officials in Tokyo indicated they would ignore an international ban on the country’s “scientific”
expeditions imposed last year.
The
Australian branch of Humane Society International claims that Kyodo Senpaku, the
Japanese firm that conducts the controversial hunts, is in contempt of court
after ignoring a 2008 federal court injunction not to slaughter the animals in
a whale sanctuary declared by the Australian government.
Japan,
which does not recognise the sanctuary, has not sent a whaling fleet to the
region since March last year when the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) ordered an immediate halt to the hunts after concluding that
they were not, as Japan had claimed, conducted for scientific research.
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