THE HAGUE: Australia will take its fight to stop Japan hunting whales in the Antarctic to the United Nation’s top court on Wednesday, in what activists say is a make or break case for the giant marine mammals’ future.
Canberra will argue before the International Court of Justice that Japan is exploiting a loophole by continuing to hunt whales as scientific research in spite of a 1986 International Whaling Commission (IWC) ban on commercial whaling.
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