Tag: international-whaling-commission

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

The Don’t Buy From Icelandic Whalers campaign has reacted with dismay to the news that Icelandic company Hvalur will resume fin whaling and with scepticism to the news that Hvalur has sold its shares in seafood giant HB Grandi to another major Icelandic seafood company on the eve of a major fishing industry exposition

A coalition of international whale protection organisations today condemned the start of Norway’s 2017 whaling season. The coalition believes the hunt could result in the cruel slaughter of up to 999 minke whales, a self-allocated quota more than 100 higher than that set by the Norwegian Government in 2016

The International Whaling Commission today joined the chorus of international voices calling for urgent action to save the Mexican vaquita porpoise from extinction. The Resolution on the Critically Endangered Vaquita, proposed by the USA and European Union, was adopted by consensus at the IWC’s 66th meeting in Slovenia