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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Australia to Spy on Japanese Whaling


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School children on a field trip watch and take notes as a Baird's Beaked whale is butchered in Wada, Japan on June 21, 2007.

Australia announced today that it will monitor Japan's whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean. Photographs and video footage may be used as evidence against Japan's activities, an Australian official warned.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder /AP