LONDON: An international coalition of environmental groups is 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 […]
Almost four decades after the 1986 global moratorium on commercial whaling put an end to the mass slaughter of whales, opposition to commercial whaling around the world is stronger than ever. Yet as we mark World Whale Day 2025, Japan, Norway and Iceland – three of the world’s wealthiest nations that otherwise generally abide by […]
Iceland’s ageing whaling fleet is set to resume its slaughter this summer after the Government issued a new licence to hunt threatened fin whales
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.
In the week that Japan announced it plans to increase the scope of its whaling activities to include threatened fin whales — we’re sharing a flashback to a film we made in 2014 to accompany an Ocean team report on Iceland’s slaughter of the species
Japan is to expand its rogue whaling to hunt threatened fin whales, a move condemned by EIA as “an appalling step backwards”.