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EIA podcast – why do the world’s whales still need saving from commercial hunting?

The International Whaling Commission effectively banned commercial whaling from 1986 and yet the world’s amazing and environmentally essential whales are still being hunted for their flesh and blubber. EIA has joined forces with several partners to launch a new global petition calling on the last three whaling nations to join the 21st century and to […]

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EIA and conservation partners unite to seek the end of commercial whaling

To mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, EIA and a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations have joined forces to launch a global petition to end commercial whaling. Sign the petition now Despite the global ban, the governments of three countries – Iceland, Japan and […]

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Conservation organisations unite to seek the end of all commercial whaling

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 […]

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Whales and whaling around South Georgia and the Antarctic – a first-hand view!

While many around the world were getting stuck into the annual Christmas festivities, EIA Senior Ocean Campaigner Sarah Dolman instead joined an expedition to survey the state of whale populations in the Antarctic. Here she shares a brief overview of her trip …   The rapid expansion, over-exploitation and subsequent decline in whale stocks in […]

Dead minke whale being transported into shore on a Japanese boat
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Yahoo! Japan is selling polluted whale and dolphin meat products to its unsuspecting customers

An international coalition of environmental groups is today 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 […]

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The vital importance of robust fisheries management – sustaining what sustains us on World Oceans Day

This Sunday (8 June) is United Nations World Oceans Day and the theme for 2025 is ‘Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us’.  The ocean sustains we humans in many ways – capturing carbon, providing wellbeing and as a source of nutrition, with fishing an age-old world-wide tradition. Today, with a new production high of more than […]