Japan's new government this week urged Australia to help thwart the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's effort against whaling and at the same time implied that it supports the nation's longstanding tradition of hunting whales. The conversation

Japan's new government urged Australia on Tuesday to help prevent violent attacks by activists on Japanese whalers as it stood by the country's traditional support for whaling, an official said.

Today in Taiji, commercial dolphin hunting is a major business. Dolphins are either sold to aquariums or slaughtered and sold to eat. The Broome local council suspended their sister city relationship with Taiji until commercial dolphin hunting stops.

140 eastern grey kangaroos have been shot days before race car drivers take off during Australia's famous motorcar race. The annual V8 Supercar Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 race takes place October 8 through 11, 2009, at the Mount Panorama race track.

The Gunns timber products corporation plans to build a huge paper mill in Bell Bay, in the north of Australia's southern island state Tasmania

Watson's police and court records are being evaluated before he's allowed to enter Australia to start his annual campaign. Watson claims politics are behind all of this, saying, "I'm not wanted on any warrants and I've never received a felony conviction."

Australia creates Marine Park to protect Humpback whale nursery

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Bowing to international pressure, the Tokyo International Film Festival announced Wednesday it will screen the controversial award-winning American documentary about the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, at the nine-day event in October.

Mounting international pressure and thousands of emails from Animals Australia supporters brings dolphins one step closer to protection from Japan's mass annual dolphin slaughter.