Tag: anti-whaling

• Wednesday, December 18th 2024 - 07:44 UTC

  Denmark releases anti-whaling activist Paul Watson; pledges to continue battling Japan’s illegal operations

  

  The Canadian-American anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was released from a Greenland jail after a five-month detention, where he was detained on an international arrest warrant by Interpol on request from the Japanese government.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Japan insists with a “Sustainable Whaling Committee” to replace moratorium on whale hunting

  

  Pro and anti-whaling nations locked horns on Monday as the International Whaling Commission (IWC) began meeting in Brazil amid outrage over Japan's proposal to end a three-decade moratorium on commercial whale hunting.