Japan's Whaling in Defiance of World Court Stirs Anger
10/24/2016
More than 80 nations have gathered in Slovenia for the biennial meeting of the International Whaling Commission. The IWC tries to balance national ...
Pro- and anti-whaling nations clashed at a key meeting Monday where Japan sought to ease a 30-year-old moratorium on commercial hunts while ...
PORTOROž (SLOVENIA) - Pro- and anti-whaling nations clashed at a key meeting Monday where Japan sought to ease a 30-year-old moratorium on ...
The International Whaling Commission on Monday opened a five-day meeting in Slovenia, with Japan's resumption of what it calls "research whaling" ...
A key meeting on whales opened to early confrontation Monday with Japan seeking an end to a 30-year moratorium on whale hunting, and others ...
“Whaling has no place in the 21st century. It's outdated, it's thoroughly inhumane,” Claire Bass of Humane Society International said from the Adriatic ...
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the 30th anniversary of the global moratorium ...
10/23/2016
The fluke of a sperm whale sticks out of the sea as it dives among other resting whales off the coast of Mirissa, in southern Sri Lanka, March 29, 2013.
JAPAN and other whaling nations are facing increased international ... The biggest bones of contention are Japan's yearly whale hunt in the name of ...
PARIS – Representatives from more than 80 nations will square off in Slovenia this week over the fate of the world's remaining whales as hunters, ship ...
10/22/2016
The 88 countries of the International Whaling Commission have gathered in Slovenia for the organisation's first major summit since Japan, in defiance ...
The stage is set for heated debate, as the 88 members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) are deeply divided along pro- and anti-hunting ...
10/21/2016
Paris - More than 80 nations square off in Slovenia next week over the fate of the world's remaining whales, facing a multitude of perils from meat ...