By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, St Kitts
Delegates at the International Whaling Commission have voted in favour of a resolution endorsing a return to commercial whaling.
The meeting on the Caribbean island of St Kitts backed the declaration by a majority of just one.
This is the outcome that Japan and its pro-whaling allies have been working towards since the meeting began.
But anti-whaling countries have indicated that they will challenge the legality of the ruling.
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Brazil and New Zealand immediately contested the legality of the vote, while Japan declared it a historic day, the first step towards the eventual lifting of the global moratorium which has been in place for 20 years.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5093350.stm(on edit: There are several links on the upper right of that page, INCLUDING FEEDBACK.)
There's already another thread on this in LNB:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2344454&mesg_id=2344454Be sure to K&R there, so this gets wider attention.