WHALE
POPULATION:
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REF:
Population Estimates
As You Can See, They Are Just Estimate And Far From Perfect.
JAPAN KILL COUNT:
Japan has killed 8,201 minke whales in the Antarctic for “scientific purposes” since the moratorium in 1986. A total of 840 whales were killed by Japan under special permit during the 31 years before the moratorium1.
Japan took a total of 866 whales in 2006/07 season:
- 3 Southern Hemisphere fin whales,
- 508 Southern Hemisphere minke whales,
- 197 North Pacific minke whales,
- 51 North Pacific Brydes whales,
- 101 North Pacific sei whales,
- 6 North Pacific sperm whales.2
The 2005/06 season was the first time Japan had taken fin whales, an endangered species.
Japan have previously announced that in the 2007-08 they will increase their take of fin whales to 50, and also take 50 humpback whales as part of their “scientific whaling” programme.
1) Info from IWC 58 Workshop document on
Fin Whales WKM-AWI8
2) Info from
IWC website submitted by the Government of New Zealand
REF:
WWF - IWC 59 Whaling Facts/Figures
Japan Is Not The Only Country That Involves In Whaling, Others Include Norway And Iceland. Since This Is About Japan Only, I Have Chose Not To Include The Total KIll Count.
As You Can See 2006/07 season, The Kill Count Was Not Too Outrageous Out of The Total Estimate, But Keep In Mind That The Estimates Are And Can Be Unreliable.
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KANGAROO
POPULATION:
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REF:
2007 Population estimates for kangaroos within the commercial harvest areas
Needless To Explain Here. Very Straightforward.
AUSTRALIA KILL COUNT:
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The 2000 kangaroo kill quota is 5, 516, 225 but the quota figures do not represent the total kill of kangaroos as the federal Government is able to set quotas for export only. Kangaroos are killed as a renewable resource. This means that kangaroos can now be legally killed simply because they are there. There is an illegal kill, a kill to feed farmers dogs, a road kill, a sadistic cruelty kill. In fact, Australia now exposes generations of young children to a killing regime which teaches them that kangaroos have no value unless they are commercially killed for profit.
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REF:
Kangaroo Kill Quotas
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Wildlife Protection Association of Australia president Pat O'Brien backed Japan. "Nobody would seriously think that Australia has any right to criticise Japan for its whaling while we are killing three and a half million kangaroos every year for dog food," he said.
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REF:
AdelaideNow... Roo cull 'threatens whale ban'
I Guess That's What Happens When You Just Have So Many 'kangaroos', You Feed It To The Dogs.. So You Tell Me 'What Is The Different?'