Japan's whaling scuppered

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"An unexpected outcome and one that has many people around here very happy,' said Steve Nicol of the Australian government's Antarctic Division. "This vindicates what scientists have been saying for years," said Phillip Clapham of the US National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. It's fair to say whale researchers were buoyant this week after the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Japan to stop whaling in the Antarctic. The ICJ ruled that such whaling was not for scientific purposes as Japan had claimed, so was not legal under the international convention regulating whaling.