IWC68: The good, the bad and the pro-whaling walk-out to scupper a sanctuary for whales
The biennial meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC68) has ended with good news and bad news for whales and dolphins
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The biennial meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC68) has ended with good news and bad news for whales and dolphins
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Slovenia has voted to engage with the United Nation in pursuit of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
For the next nine days, EIA campaigners are attending the 68th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) with a four-strong delegation from our UK and US offices
The IWC’s critical role in tackling the impacts of plastic on the world’s whales, dolphins and porpoises Global production of virgin (primary) plastics has increased from two million tonnes in 1950 to 460 million tonnes in 2021 – an increase of 22,900 per cent. To date, humans have produced about 10 billion tonnes of plastics […]
Iceland’s first whaling season in four years has come to an end, chalking up a death toll of 148 fin whales
Forty years ago tomorrow (23 July), contracting governments to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting at Brighton’s Metropole Hotel voted by 25 to seven for a global ban on commercial whaling, commonly known as ‘the moratorium’. This was one of the most important conservation and welfare decisions of the 20th century and is as important […]