Posts Tagged ‘Australia’
New Australian Government Puts The World’s Largest MPA On Hold
The incoming Conservative Government has set aside previously agreed management plans and is instigating a review to determine future boundaries and acceptable activities. The Government has cited the reasons for its decision as a need for ‘genuine consultation with fishers and other stakeholders’. The Government has been caught hook, line and sinker by the commercial…
Read MoreAre Japanese whalers hunting whales from Australia?
Andrew Darby, author and friend of the whales, reports that ‘Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the subantarctic for the first time’. There has been concern for some time that Japan has been hunting endangered minke whales in the North Pacific, but now it appears that minke…
Read MoreAdelaide dolphin Wave grieves the loss of her calf
This past week we watched with great sadness the way a mother dolphin grieves for her dead calf. Port River dolphin Wave is known to have given birth to a calf on Sunday, September 22 but the baby was either still born or died almost immediately after being born. For the next five days Wave…
Read MoreDolphin shot in Australian sanctuary
There have been calls for more rangers to patrol the area around the Adelaide’s Port River dolphin sanctuary following the discovery of a shotgun pellet in a young dolphin found dead in the areas outer harbour. Three other dolphins have been found dead in the sanctuary in recent weeks and WDC believes that the deaths…
Read MoreAustralia’s motivation: Japan attacks
Whilst Australia’s motivation for bringing the case on Japanese Scientific Whaling to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) may be the result of domestic public pressure, the Government of Japan seems to have a more sceptical perspective. Presenting their oral arguments to the court Japan argued that: ‘Another aspect of the case pertains to confining the…
Read MoreWhy is Australia v Japan such a special case?
The history of contentious cases at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is long, dating back to 1947. The ICJ was founded just a few years earlier in 1945 and is the principle judicial organ of the United Nations. A contentious case is one in which there is a legal dispute between countries (as opposed to a…
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