Institute of Cetacean Research
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institute-of-cetacean-research-186-16922410
title:
Institute of Cetacean Research
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Institute of Cetacean Research The Institute of Cetacean Research is a research organization that claims to specialise in "biological and social sciences related to whales" but is widely believed to be a front for commercial whaling. In the past, it killed several hundred whales per year in the name of its 'research', the validity and necessity of which has been called into question. Among its activities, the ICR also used to sell "whale research byproducts" commercially, which environmental gro
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description:
Controversial Japanese whaling body that purports to be focused on research
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Cetacean_Research
date created:
2004-01-21T04:23:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T03:54:04Z
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