LONDON: An international coalition of environmental groups is calling on Yahoo! Japan and its parent company, the LY Corporation, to stop selling products containing whale and dolphin meat after a new investigation found high levels of toxins in some of the nearly 1,000 cetacean food items available for purchase on the massive search engine and […]
LONDON: Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are dying every year in European waters as a result of being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming perilously close to extinction. A new report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals that the degree of bycatch […]
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 […]
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.
Japan’s decision to expand its rogue whaling to include threatened fin whales is today condemned by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) as “an appalling step backwards”.
A ‘ludicrous’ attempt to justify the killing of endangered fin whales by claiming their slaughter will help Iceland achieve its climate goals has been debunked by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).