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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

During the 20th century, 2.9 million whales were killed by commercial whaling, likely the single largest removal of any animal in terms of total biomass in human history. As global pressure to end the slaughter mounted, the International Whaling Commission agreed a moratorium on commercial whaling from 1986

Iceland’s internationally condemned minke whale hunting industry has shut down, citing rising costs after just six whales were slaughtered in June and none in July, traditionally the peak time for hunting. Iceland operates in open defiance of an international ban on commercial whaling which was imposed in 1986

The decision to commit $900,000 to a planning study under the Agency’s 2018 draft fiscal budget was taken despite a 30-year global moratorium on commercial whaling