International Whaling Commission

IT IS said that the blue whale lights up the sea. Now, Australian scientists have turned to sound to illuminate the hidden lives of the few...

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By James Badham. Tweet. For decades, whalers and those opposed to whaling have been locked in a pitched battle over the fate of the world's largest...

A slick black head breaks the surface, drawing delighted shrieks from whale watchers in a growing, and lucrative, activity that some say should replace Iceland's controversial whale hunt.Since their meagre beginning in the 1990s, whale safaris in this island state ...

The global forum charged with both protecting and overseeing the hunting of whales ended a four-day session Thursday with a walkout by pro-whaling nations in order to block a vote on the creation of a new sanctuary.The 63rd annual meeting of ...

Watching and hunting whales "work perfectly together" in a look-and-cook combo of tourism and gastronomy, Iceland's Whale Commissioner said Thursday at the global whaling forum."Many of the tourists that go on whale watching tours go to restaurants afterwards to taste ...

Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said Thursday it will erect a "wall of sound" in the sea to deter the killing of hundreds of pilot whales in shallow coves along the Faroe Islands, a Danish territory.Using two ships and a helicopter, the ...

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) changed Wednesday the way its 89 member nations pay fees, adopting a British proposal to boost transparency and discourage alleged influence-peddling.Debate at the IWC's 63rd annual meeting, which closes on Thursday, has been dominated by ...

Sonic blasts used in oil exploration pose a mounting threat to whales, especially a critically endangered species that feeds and breeds near Russia's Sakhalin Island, the global whaling forum has heard.Britain and the United States voiced fears that plans to ...

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Topic: International Whaling Commission

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