South Africa will oppose moves by some member countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to return to commercial whale hunting, according to Horst Kleinschmidt, deputy director of the Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism. The country will also not support "scientific" whaling, where whales are killed supposedly for scientific research, particularly by Japan.
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