Tag: conservationists

• 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.

• Monday, March 7th 2011 - 13:43 UTC

  Flying with the Albatross

  

  THE British Royal Navy and the company British International helicopters have been assisting Islander conservationists in vital surveys of the majestic Black-browed albatross in the Falkland Islands.