The widow of TV wildlife entertainer "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin said she would launch a non-lethal whale research programme in Antarctic waters next year in an effort to show that Japan's scientific whaling cull is a sham.
Terri Irwin announced that the whale-watching programme she started to honor her late husband, who died in a freak stingray attack off Australia's Great Barrier Reef, would expand into scientific research. Tokyo has staunchly defended its annual cull of more than 1,000 whales as crucial for research purposes, and says killing whales is necessary to gather information about their breeding and migratory habits. Environmentalists and anti-whaling nations say the slaughter is commercial whaling in disguise. Japan had planned to kill up to 50 endangered humpback whales this season, but backed away from the plan in the face of strong international condemnation. Irwin says that they can actually learn everything the Japanese are learning with lethal research by using non-lethal research.
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