Through Secret Campaign, Pro-Hunting Japanese Seize Control Of Whaling Commission...

Through Secret Campaign, Pro-Hunting Japanese Seize Control Of Whaling Commission...

The environmental movement is facing one of its biggest-ever reverses, over one of its most cherished causes: Save The Whale.

In a remarkable diplomatic coup, Japan, the leading pro-whaling nation, is poised to seize control of whaling's regulatory body, the International Whaling Commission (IWC), and so hasten the return of commercial whale hunting, which has been officially banned worldwide for the past 20 years.

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