Japan’s move to kill fin whales is a ‘desperate effort’ to prop up a destructive, outdated industry
Japan is to expand its rogue whaling to hunt threatened fin whales, a move condemned by EIA as “an appalling step backwards”.
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Japan’s move to kill fin whales a ‘desperate effort’ to prop up a destructive, outdated industry
Japan’s decision to expand its rogue whaling to include threatened fin whales is today condemned by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) as “an appalling step backwards”.
Europe lags behind in taking action to protect porpoises from dying as bycatch in fishing nets
Despite decades of scientific attention to this issue, there are no harbour porpoise populations in European waters where bycatch has been adequately managed and prevented
Illegal fish bladder trade could sound the death knell for the last 10 vaquita porpoises
A thriving online illegal trade in the swim bladders of endangered totoaba fish is helping to drive the vaquita porpoise to the brink of extinction
Criminal fish bladder trade could sound the death knell for the last 10 vaquita porpoises
A new investigation has revealed that the illegal trade in the swim bladders of endangered totoaba fish which is driving the vaquita porpoise to extinction is thriving on social media
Thousands of small whales and dolphins slaughtered in Greenland’s poorly regulated hunts
New EIA research has revealed that more than 100,000 small cetaceans have been slaughtered in poorly regulated hunts off Greenland during the past three decades