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 […]
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.
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”.
A ‘ludicrous’ attempt to justify the killing of endangered fin whales by claiming their slaughter will help Iceland achieve its climate goals has been debunked by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
The first minke whale in Japan’s controversial new commercial whale hunt has been landed at Kushiro port in northern Japan