反捕鲸在行动！～(1) [标准VOA071014]

Australia Goes Online to Fight Japanese Whalers (1/2)

Australia's anti-whaling film clip accuses Japan of using its scientific whaling program as a cover for commercial hunting.

The film has been posted on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube and it aims to reach Japanese children.

It features video of humpback whales frolicking in the sea and Australia's Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull interviewing Australian children who oppose Japan's whaling program.

Turnbull narrates the film clip, which is sub-titled in Japanese.

"Can you imagine what life on Earth would be like without these magnificent creatures? Hundreds of years of whaling have nearly wiped them out. Action by our government and other nations has secured a global ban on commercial whaling and whale populations are now slowly recovering but there's still whaling going on - often under the pretext of scientific research. And we urge all countries, especially our friends in Japan, to bring their whaling programs to an end."

Japanese whale hunters plan to capture 50 humpback whales in the Antarctic in the coming months.

The endangered mammals are migrating south along the Australian coast, attracting thousands of whale watchers.

Japan also plans to kill 935 minke whales for what it calls scientific research.

澳大利亚反捕鲸的影片剪辑指控日本以做鲸鱼的科学节目为借口进行商业捕猎活动。

该影片发布于流行的视频分享节目YouTube中，其目的是希望日本的孩子可以看到它。

该影片录制了驼背鲸在水中嬉戏的画面以及澳大利亚环境部长Malcolm Turnball对反日本鲸鱼项目的澳大利亚儿童的采访。

电影剪辑是由Turnbull解说的，并配有日文字幕。

“你能想象如果地球上没有这些巨大的生物会怎样呢？几百年前，鲸鱼差点灭绝。由于受到我们政府和其他国家的禁止全球鲸鱼捕杀的禁令的保护，鲸鱼的数量才逐渐增加。但是，仍有一些人以科学研究为借口，继续捕杀鲸鱼。我们力劝所有的国家，尤其是我们在日本的朋友们，请停止你们的鲸鱼项目。”

日本捕鲸者计划下月在南极捕捉50头驼背鲸。

这种濒临灭绝的哺乳动物正在沿澳大利亚海岸南移，其吸引了无数观鲸者。日本以进行科学研究为名，打算再捕杀935头小须鲸鱼。