LONDON: To mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations has joined forces to launch a global petition to end commercial whaling. Despite the global ban, the governments of three countries – Iceland, Japan and Norway – have sanctioned the […]
LONDON: Despite the critically endangered vaquita porpoise still teetering on the brink of extinction, the Government of Mexico is considering a proposal to reduce its protected habitat by more than 85 per cent. Scientists estimate that as few as 10 vaquita may remain in Mexico’s Gulf of California, the only place in the world they […]
LONDON: An international coalition of environmental groups is calling on Yahoo! Japan and its parent company, the LY Corporation, to stop selling products containing whale and dolphin meat after a new investigation found high levels of toxins in some of the nearly 1,000 cetacean food items available for purchase on the massive search engine and […]
LONDON: Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are dying every year in European waters as a result of being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming perilously close to extinction. A new report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals that the degree of bycatch […]
LIMA: The International Whaling Commission today adopted a Resolution on commercial whaling for the first time in more than 20 years, with a strong majority of countries in support. Thirty-seven IWC contracting governments voted in favour and just 12 countries – including only one whaling country, Norway – voted against. Iceland abstained and Japan, as […]
Iceland’s ageing whaling fleet looks set to resume its slaughter this summer as the Government issued a new licence to hunt threatened fin whales.