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NZ: South Korea whaling 'a serious setback'

The decision by South Korea to start whaling is being labelled 'unnecessary' and 'reckless' by New Zealand's whaling commissioner.

Fight for Maori whaling traditions

Slower ships seen as whales' best chance in gulf

Freed whaling activists set to arrive home

Jim Hopkins: Dinner music from the ocean depths

A price on their heads could save the whales

Warning as Japan to free activsts

Whaling activists' fate 'up to Japan'

Whale at centre of Far North rescue dies

Whale of a challenge confronts Far North rescuers

Govt condemns whaling resumption

Aust fights whaling in international court

Australia is to argue Japan's whaling activities have breached international obligations.

Rare whale tracked

'No alternative' to putting down whales

A decision to kill 48 pilot whales found stranded on Stewart Island had been difficult but there was no alternative, DoC says.

NZ Govt welcomes end to whaling season

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says he welcomes today's announcement by the Japanese Government that its whaling fleet will stop whaling in the Southern Ocean and return home.

Activists confident whaling fleet heading back to Japan

Activists tailing a Japanese whaling ship say it has turned around and is on course for Japan.