AUSTRALIA GIVES JAPAN A DEADLINE

Australian Prime Mininster Kevin Rudd has given Japan an ultimatum: cease whaling in the Southern Ocean or face international legal action. Rudd has been under fire for not keeping a campaign promise to take the Japanese to court over whaling. "But that's the bottom line and we're very clear to the Japanese, that's what we intend to do," he told the Seven Network today. "If that fails, then we will initiate court action before the commencement of the whaling season in November 2010."

JAPANESE WHALERS ON THE ATTACK!

Japanese whalers are accused of causing a collision on the high seas. To read more, link to the story on BREAKING NEWS!

BOB BARKER'S WHALE OF A TALE

Bob Barker is a new ship that's joining the war against whaling. The vessel was retrofitted thanks to a $5 mil donation from Price is Right legend, Bob Barker. Read more. Link to it on Breaking News!

UFOs TO BATTLE WHALERS?

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Anti-whaling activists are using a small, space-age-like vessel to scare off Japan's whaling fleet from Antarctic waters - with a ghostly tune as its main weapon.

WHALE IN A FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE

See Breaking News about a juvenile humpback whale entangled in hundreds of feet of heavy rope off Hawaii's coast. The situation is "life-threatening.''

NEW TWIST IN JAPAN'S WHALING DUPLICITY

It has been widely acknowledged that Japan carries two types of minke whale stocks:
1) the O-stock, which is hunted under the IWC loophole of "scientifc and research" whaling;
2) the J-stock, which is substantially depleted and has been protected since 1986 but continues to be killed as "bycatch."

A new study now finds that Japan slaughters just as many J-stock whales as they do the O-stock. Much of this bycatch is unregulated and goes unreported. Using DNA testing, green activists have also matched meat from the hunts with that sold and served in markets and restaurants, even though Japan has consistently maintained it does not hunt whales for commercial purposes.

ICELAND RECORDS LARGEST COMMERCIAL WHALE HUNT

According to the the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Iceland killed at least 93 endangered fin whales this summer. Fin whales are second to blues in size and are still only now slowly recovering from the unregulated yester-years of whaling. Along with the 63 minke whales that Iceland slaughtered during the same period, this total represents the biggest commercial whale hunt the North Atlantic has seen in several decades.