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Iceland’s rogue whaling season comes to an end with a bloody tally of 148 dead fin whales
Iceland’s first whaling season in four years has come to an end, chalking up a death toll of 148 fin whales
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Iceland’s first whaling season in four years has come to an end, chalking up a death toll of 148 fin whales
The 88 member countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) have been urged to adopt a new 50-Year Vision to save whales, dolphins and porpoises from extinction in the face of increasing ocean threats
The first minke whale in Japan’s controversial new commercial whale hunt has been landed at Kushiro port in northern Japan
Conservation groups and celebrities collectively call for an ‘international whaling intervention’ to be staged at the G20 summit in Osaka as summit host Japan prepares to launch a renewed commercial whaling programme
Japan’s plan to hunt whales within its own economic waters might lead to more whale meat exports from Iceland and Norway
For the first time since its launch in 2014, UN World Wildlife Day (3 March) switches its focus from creatures on the land to the world beneath the waves with the theme 'Life below water: for people and planet'.