http://www.newsweek.com/japan-kills-120-pregnant-whales-antarctica-946431

a prominent animal rights group has expressed outrage at Japan’s
controversial whaling program after it emerged that more than 120 pregnant
whales were slaughtered last year during the country’s annual hunt in the
Antarctic Ocean.

Latest figures show that 333 minke Antarctic whales were killed last
summer, 181 of which were females and 122 of which were pregnant.

The annual summer hunt, which lasted 143 days, killed 61 immature males and
53 immature females or 114 in total, according to meeting papers from the
International Whaling Commission’s scientific committee.

Humane Society International senior program manager Alexia Wellbelove
criticized the “cruelty of Japan’s whale hunt.”

A Minke whale is trussed to the side of the Japanese whale hunter Kyo Maru
in this image from 1995 as the boat heads for the factory ship Nisshin Maru
in the Antarctic whale sanctuary. Japan is under fire after it emerged that
it had…