LIMA: The International Whaling Commission today adopted a Resolution on commercial whaling for the first time in more than 20 years, with a strong majority of countries in support. Thirty-seven IWC contracting governments voted in favour and just 12 countries – including only one whaling country, Norway – voted against. Iceland abstained and Japan, as […]
The 69th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in Lima, Peru, where some countries will be pushing for the creation of a new whale sanctuary and others for a return to commercial whaling. Contracting governments to the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling will meet for five days to discuss a […]
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”.