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Japan: U.S. Base Must Weigh Effect on Revered Creature Anonymous
Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of Federal District Court in San Francisco has ruled that the United States Defense Department violated the National Historic Preservation Act by failing to evaluate the potential effect of a planned United States air base in Okinawa on a recognized Japanese national treasure — a big, slow-moving aquatic mammal called the dugong — and ordered it to do so. The dugong, associated with traditional creation myths, is listed on Japan’s register of protected cultural properties. In the case, Okinawa Dugong v. Gates, No. 03-4350, the judge sided with environmentalists who said plans to relocate the Futenma Air Station, a Marine Corps base, to a site off the northeast coast of Okinawa would threaten the dwindling number of dugong that live in the seagrass beds. The decision, made Thursday, is the first time the Historic Preservation Act has been applied to an overseas project, Judge Patel said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/world/asia/26briefs-creature.html?ref=asia
>> Anonymous
>>Okinawa Dugong v. Gates
>>Okinawa Dugong
>>Dugong
HOLY SHIT
>> Anonymous
>>205317

Please tell me this HOLY SHIT is more than some undereducated pokefag experiencing an epiphany.
>> Court rules Japan whalers breaking Aust law Anonymous
The Federal Court has ruled that the Japanese whaling fleet is breaking Australian law, and has issued an injunction to stop its activities.

The court says it is satisfied that the Japanese whaling fleet, controlled by Japanese company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, has contravened numerous sections of the Environment Protection Act by killing and injuring Antarctic minke and fin whales in the Australian whale sanctuary.

It has ordered that it be restrained from continuing whaling.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/15/2138867.htm
>> Anonymous
>>205321
I'm afraid it's likely not. Very sad.
>> Anonymous
>>Dugong
OH SHI-