whaling

  • Japan Says It Will Withdraw From IWC And Resume Commercial Whaling

    Japan Says It Will Withdraw From IWC And Resume Commercial Whaling

    Japan announced this week it will be splitting from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in order to renew its commercial whaling practices. The announcement comes after years of Japan exploiting a loophole in IWC’s international moratorium on whale killings, and after the IWC declined to approve its bid for commercial whaling, the Wall Street Journal…


  • Humans Killed Nearly 3 Million Whales In The 20th Century

    Humans Killed Nearly 3 Million Whales In The 20th Century

    International whaling bans have been in effect since the early 1980s, but many populations have been slow to recover. Using the current International Whaling Commission database and other sources, a new study helps explain why. Basically, we killed a lot more whales than we realised.