Tag: IWC

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  Japan wants to change voting rules at IWC to hunt for more whale species

  

  Australia and other anti-whaling nations are seeking a showdown with Japan as Tokyo attempts to resume commercial whaling later this year. Japanese officials have reportedly confirmed the country's attempt to alter voting rules and allow hunting of whale species with “healthy” numbers at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Brazil in September.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 23:18 UTC

  Environmentalists propose a whales’ sanctuary ring along the American continent

  

  Environment organizations meeting in Panama will demand the creation of a whales’ sanctuary in the south Atlantic and south Pacific, at the coming meeting of the International Whaling Commission.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:04 UTC

  Animal rights organizations claim Japan is corrupting the Whaling Commission

  

  Animal rights organizations claim Japan has been handing out generous grants to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to support turning the International Whaling Commission into a “toothless paper tiger” undermining the whaling-moratorium.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Attempt to create South Atlantic whale sanctuary rejected in IWC meeting

  

  International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting closed after a tense final day when relations between opposing blocs came close to collapse. Latin American nations attempted to force a vote on a proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 07:40 UTC

  Millions of tons of plastic debris in oceans lethal threat for whales and dolphins

  

  Millions of tons of plastic debris dumped each year in the world's oceans could pose a lethal threat to whales and dolphins, according to a scientific assessment to be presented at a key international whaling forum this week.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2011 - 05:45 UTC

  Latinamerican countries call on Japan to cease “scientific whaling”

  

  Nine Latinamerican countries that make up the “Buenos Aires Group” have called on Japan to put an end to “scientific whaling” as vessels take off for the new hunting season in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Monday, January 10th 2011 - 06:33 UTC

  Wikileaks uncovers secret whaling agreement between U.S. and Japan involving Sea Shepard

  

  Recent Wikileaks cables have exposed classified material sent by the United States embassy in Tokyo to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 02:24 UTC

  Lack of compromise questions credibility of International Whaling Commission

  

  Attempts to agree a compromise between whaling nations and their opponents at the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting in Morocco have failed. After two days of private discussions, delegates reported they had been unable to reach agreement on major issues.