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Australia takes Japan to top UN court to stop whaling
June 26, 2013
Australia takes its legal battle to stop Japanese whaling in the Antarctic before the UN's highest court today, in an emotionally-charged case activists say is make-or-break for the giant marine mammals' future.
Canberra will argue before the International Court of Justice in The Hague that Japan is exploiting a loophole by continuing to hunt whales as scientific research in spite of a 1986 International Whaling Commission ban on commercial whaling.