Tag: commercial-whaling

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

Environmental groups around the world expressed their deep concern as a proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic under the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was once again blocked by a minority of countries supporting Japan’s pro-whaling agenda

After spending more than three decades slaughtering whales in defiance of an international moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan is proposing a package of measures at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting next month that would effectively lift the global ban on for-profit whaling