The Wire

The Humane Society International has released figures showing that Japan’s whale hunt last year involved the slaughter of 505 minke whales, 263 of which were pregnant females. One of the three fin whales killed was also pregnant. The figures, based on Japan’s own reports to the international whaling commission, come as the society is recommencing a case against one Japanese commercial fleet, accused of whaling in the waters of the Australian Whaling Sanctuary of Antarctica.