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Australian court fines Japanese whaling company $1m for 'intentional' breaches | Environment | The Guardian

Australian court fines Japanese whaling company $1m for 'intentional' breaches | Environment | The Guardian:

"An Australian court has found a Japanese whaling company guilty of “wilful contempt” of court for breaching an order to stop killing whales, and has fined it $1m.

On Wednesday, the Australian federal court heard an application by Humane Society International (HSI) as part of a decade-long legal battle against the company Kyodo Senpaku to stop Japan killing whales within Australia’s Antarctic whale sanctuary.

HSI alleged that the company had several times breached a 2008 injunction to stop taking whales in the sanctuary.

It is the first finding of contempt of Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.


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Federal court judge Jayne Jagot found Kyodo had engaged in all the alleged breaches."



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