updated Wed. February 6, 2019
-
Xinhua
March 7, 2018
The decision was made according to the calculation models by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which shall ensure sustainable capture, according to the ministry. The hunting of the common minke whale has been active in Norway since the 1920s. Although the species is not considered to beÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 7, 2018
“Greenpeace believes Norway should take the logical consequences of the International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial whaling, the widespread opposition to whaling, as well as the lack of local market for the products, and close down this unnecessary and outdated industry,” Truls Gulowsen,ÃÂ ...
HSUS News (blog)
February 26, 2018
We advocated for porpoises—hundreds of thousands of whom die cruel deaths each year due to bycatch—by helping to establish the first-ever Bycatch Mitigation Coordinator in the International Whaling Commission. Hong Kong agreed to a three-year phase-out of its domestic ivory trade, as well as importÃÂ ...
The Times
February 20, 2018
Having been persuaded to join the family company by an uncle and learn the ropes in South Georgia, Elliot later worked with the International Whaling Commission, which had been tasked with conserving whale stocks in the 1960s. He went to Moscow to help to negotiate quota agreements with the SovietÃÂ ...
9news.com.au
February 15, 2018
Last year whalers harpooned 333 minkes in the name of science, exploiting a loophole in the rules of the International Whaling Commission. "We hope that when the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources next meets it will pass new proposals for important new marineÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
February 11, 2018
Postmedia columnist Daphne Bramham crosses the notoriously rough Drake Passage from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia — known as the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean — to Antarctica. Her daily reports from the 18-day expedition cover issues from climate change and micro plastics in the oceanÃÂ ...
One Green Planet
February 8, 2018
His stance on the cruel practice is blatant, and he does not even try to conceal the real nature of the hunts under the typical guise of scientific research. For the past three decades, Japan has ignored the 1986 International Whaling Commission ban on commercial whaling and has continued killing whalesÃÂ ...
Earth Island Journal
December 31, 1999
And Uruguay, along with four other nations, continues to push for establishment of a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary, though so far, the International Whaling Commission has rejected the idea. The country could, however, do more for its livestock, particularly with respect to treatment of livestock. Vanuatu puts sustainabilityÃÂ ...
HSUS News (blog)
December 31, 1999
She has represented The HSUS and its affiliates in numerous meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the International Whaling Commission, and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. Block led The HSUS's efforts to secure protections for dolphins withÃÂ ...
EcoWatch
February 16, 2018
The research is being conducted in collaboration with scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart and under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission's Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC-SORP). The aim of the partnership is to implement and promote non-lethal whaleÃÂ ...
9news.com.au
February 15, 2018
Last year whalers harpooned 333 minkes in the name of science, exploiting a loophole in the rules of the International Whaling Commission. "We hope that when the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources next meets it will pass new proposals for important new marineÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
February 15, 2018
While Greenpeace spokesman Willie Mackenzie credits the International Whaling Commission for having stopped whaling here, he said it lacks the power to protect other species including krill, which is being fished more heavily than before. “Antarctica is relatively simple, almost everything that lives thereÃÂ ...
MauiTime Weekly
February 13, 2018
In recent years, through his involvement with the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its Sub-Committees on Whale-watching, Southern Hemisphere Whales, and Bycatch, Kaufman was widely recognized for his important guidance. Kaufman was a contributing member to the Southern OceansÃÂ ...
Maui News
February 13, 2018
Kaufman also was involved with the International Whaling Commission and its subcommittees, was a contributing member to the Southern Oceans Research Partnership and co-led the United Nations Environmental Programme's Regional Workshop on Marine Mammal Watch in the Wider CaribbeanÃÂ ...
CTV Vancouver Island
February 13, 2018
The species was decimated by whalers in the 19th and 20th centuries, leading to a significant population decline and their subsequent protection by the International Whaling Commission. Towers said the whales may have been coming into the B.C. coast on occasion more than 100 years ago, andÃÂ ...
Maui Now
February 12, 2018
He was also a leader in whale research, ocean conservation, and marine ecotourism at the international level. In recent years, through his involvement with the International Whaling Commission and its Sub-Committees on Whale-watching, Southern Hemisphere Whales, and Bycatch, Kaufman was widelyÃÂ ...
theday.com
February 3, 2018
Identify the International Whaling Commission as the principal body overseeing the conservation of whales. Know the chemical makeup of the venom left by a jellyfish sting. On the eve of a New England Patriots Super Bowl, the minds of the 80 high school competitors at the Quahog Bowl, the regionalÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
February 3, 2018
Evidence suggests that the stocks are rebounding since the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling there in 1982 — a moratorium that Canada opposed and, as a result, resigned its membership in the commission. But now there are growing concerns about the commercial fishingÃÂ ...
The Mainichi
January 25, 2018
Yukio Edano, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party, questions Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, rear right, during the plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2018. (Mainichi). TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged all political parties Wednesday to deepenÃÂ ...
Daily Times
January 25, 2018
Japan is a signatory to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on hunting, but exploits a loophole that allows whales to be killed in the name of scientific research. Tokyo says slaughter is necessary for in-depth knowledge of whale behaviour and biology, but it makes no secret of the factÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
January 24, 2018
Japan is a signatory to the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on hunting, but exploits a loophole that allows whales to be killed in the name of scientific research. Tokyo says lethal research is necessary for in-depth knowledge of whale behavior and biology, but it makes no secret of the factÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 23, 2018
The International Whaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, but a clause in the ban allows Japan to catch whales and sell the meat on the open market, despite a sharp decline in domestic consumption since the postwar period. Japanese whaling officials say only lethalÃÂ ...
Cambridge Independent
January 21, 2018
It's also home to the International Whaling Commission. But it is the community spirit which is possibly its greatest asset.” The judges tasked with helping Ms Keith select the top village consist of archaeologist and village historian Alex Langlands; garden designer Juliet Sargeant, who broke ground as theÃÂ ...
The Japan News
January 19, 2018
Regarding the new mother ship plan, a Foreign Ministry senior official also said, “The move will undoubtedly provoke a strong backlash from antiwhaling countries.” □ Research whaling. After the International Whaling Commission suspended commercial whaling in 1982, the Japanese government beganÃÂ ...
Business Insider
January 15, 2018
Humpback numbers have been recovering since the International Whaling Commission banned whaling in the Southern Hemisphere in 1963. "Gathering baseline information of whale lung microbiota provides a snapshot of health information from an animal that is uncatchable," she says. But first is theÃÂ ...
Business Insider Australia
January 14, 2018
Humpback numbers have been recovering since the International Whaling Commission banned whaling in the Southern Hemisphere in 1963. “Gathering baseline information of whale lung microbiota provides a snapshot of health information from an animal that is uncatchable,” she says. But first is theÃÂ ...
Maui Now
January 8, 2018
He is an invited participant to the International Whaling Commission's Scientific Committee and regularly advises governments and other authorities on how to develop and sustain responsible whale and dolphin watching programs. Undaunted by health concerns, Kaufman remains active in theseÃÂ ...
OPB News
January 5, 2018
Nearly a decade ago, marine scientists and the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee called for reducing shipping's contribution to ocean noise by 3 decibels in 10 years. “Damned if the Port of Vancouver didn't pull it off,” or at least come very close, Williams said. The next step — and theÃÂ ...
Crosscut
January 3, 2018
Nearly a decade ago, marine scientists and the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee called for reducing shipping's contribution to ocean noise by 3 decibels in 10 years. “Damned if the Port of Vancouver didn't pull it off,” or at least come very close, Williams said. The next step — and theÃÂ ...
The Wire
January 1, 2018
In a report to the International Whaling Commission, she wrote, approximately 70 to 75 baleen whale carcasses washed up on the west coast between 1980 to 2014. Only seven were humpbacks. In 2006, the Indian Coast Guard took photographs of one, and in 2008, fishers freed another tangled in aÃÂ ...
Daily Pioneer
December 27, 2017
India's name is sadly missing from the list of countries — members of the European Union and 12 others — that have condemned Japan's whaling expedition in the Antarctic waters launched recently. The plan is to kill 333 Minke whales in four months. Ever since the International Whaling Commission'sÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 18, 2017
The European Union was joined by 12 other nations in its call for Japan to end its whaling programme, stating that it is “resolutely opposed” to commercial whaling. Japan is a signatory to the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) moratorium on whale hunting, but Tokyo continues to hunt the mammalsÃÂ ...
HuffPost
July 17, 2017
The new legislation claims the purpose of Japan's scientific whaling is to set the stage for a return to full-scale commercial whaling on the high seas, a move currently blocked by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). But the Japan government has consistently ignored objections and resolutions fromÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
December 31, 1999
Postmedia columnist Daphne Bramham crosses the notoriously rough Drake Passage from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia — known as the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean — to Antarctica. Her daily reports from the 18-day expedition cover issues from climate change and micro plastics in the oceanÃÂ ...
Lexology
December 31, 1999
In 1977, the International Whaling Commission expressed concern over the low Bowhead Whale population.[11] Their report specifically mentioned future expansion of offshore oil and gas extraction as being a risk to Bowheads.[12] At that time, Inuit subsistence hunters knew that Bowhead Whales wereÃÂ ...
Hakai Magazine
December 31, 1999
This year, he was working in the North Pacific, tasked with ensuring Soviet whalers followed international guidelines set out by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). And on this day, the observer failed to notice the illegally caught blue whale, or was voluntarily ignorant as he swilled vodka.
LabourList
November 19, 2017
... and coastal access act, alongside championing strong international delegations to fora such as the International Whaling Commission.
E&E News
November 13, 2017
The International Whaling Commission determined at the time that the bowhead whale population was precipitously low. All hunting of them ...
The Delta Discovery
November 10, 2017
It is 1 of 11 Alaska communities that participate in two whaling seasons, recognized and authorized by the International Whaling Commission.
Metro
November 10, 2017
The utilisation of small cetaceans is a legal activity in the Faroe Islands in accordance with The International Whaling Commission. Mr Holm ...
Xinhua
November 10, 2017
... decision to conduct whaling in the Southern Ocean "flies in the face of the clear recommendations of the International Whaling Commission, ...
IISD Reporting Services
October 31, 2017
... Convention (IPPC); the ITPGR; the International Whaling Commission (IWC); the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands; and the UN Educational, ...
Hakai Magazine
October 25, 2017
... Tulloch says this is the first time researchers have included relatively new data from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that shows ...
The Weather Network
October 25, 2017
Numbers have been slow to rebound since the the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986. Human activity ...
Florida Trend
October 24, 2017
... and U.S. Commissioner and Chairman for both the International Whaling Commission and the International Commission for the Conservation ...
Common Dreams
October 23, 2017
The International Whaling Commission meets every four years to decide the future of the whales. That is, it decides which nation will kill how ...
HuffPost
October 13, 2017
... hunts,” Phillips added, “and the International Whaling Commission has repeatedly condemned Japan's whaling and slaughter of dolphins.”.
Undercurrent News
October 12, 2017
... calling on Japan to end the hunts,” Phillips added, “and the International Whaling Commission has repeatedly condemned Japan's whaling ...
National Geographic
October 12, 2017
While the species is now internationally protected by the International Whaling Commission, their numbers have been slow to rebound, in large ...
Gizmodo
October 11, 2017
It was 1977, and the International Whaling Commission (IWC) had just placed a moratorium on bowhead whale hunting, after a USÂ ...
