Spain – Australian Government will take legal measures against Japan for its “scientific whaling”. This way, the Australian Government is fulfilling their campaign promise to try to prevent Tokyo killing more cetaceans. The environmental organization has said the Government of Australia not to rule out other measures to make Japan finish this activity.

Next June 21 the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) begins in Agadir (Morocco). In some previous meetings, several countries have demanded the reopening of whaling, which would give countries like Japan and Norway hunting quotas for the next ten years.

Celia Ojeda, responsible for Oceans campaign of Greenpeace, has said that “our organization urges the international community to focus on this threat to whales; a possible proposal to end the 30-year moratorium on hunting ban. “Spanish Government should learn from the Australian initiative and prevent the reopening of whaling for any reason. Spain, current president in the EU, should ally with Australia and demand the end of whaling, including the one with scientific purposes”.

Two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, are being tried in Japan for exposing a scandal of trafficking meat from the program of "scientific whaling” and corruption of the whaling industry. The Spanish government should help ensure that these activists have a fair trial to expose the reality behind the whaling program in Japan.