Tag: commercial-whaling

New whaling quotas for the next five years announced by the Government of Iceland are a big step in the wrong direction..

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has today (14 January) confirmed it has received formal notice of Japan’s decision to quit..

So here we are at the beginning of 2019 and as we embark for another year of campaigning against environmental crime and abuse, here's a brief look back at some of the wins and highlights you've helped us to achieve during 2018.

We have been documenting the annual Dall’s porpoise hunts for some 20 years, to raise awareness of the hunts themselves and their negative impact on marine conservation, taking our findings to meetings of the International Whaling Commission leading to several resolutions being adopted calling on Japan to stop the hunt

During the 20th century, 2.9 million whales were killed by commercial whaling, likely the single largest removal of any animal in terms of total biomass in human history. As global pressure to end the slaughter mounted, the International Whaling Commission agreed a moratorium on commercial whaling from 1986

Iceland’s internationally condemned minke whale hunting industry has shut down, citing rising costs after just six whales were slaughtered in June and none in July, traditionally the peak time for hunting. Iceland operates in open defiance of an international ban on commercial whaling which was imposed in 1986