10/25/2016
Whaling nations have defeated a renewed bid by southern hemisphere states to create an Atlantic sanctuary for the marine mammals hunted to near ...
“It's a disappointment that the proposal for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary has again been defeated by those nations with a vested interest in killing ...
Brazil first proposed creating a whale sanctuary in South Atlantic in 1998, but it hasn't been able to get past an international vote because of ...
The proposal by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Gabon, South Africa and Uruguay aimed to establish a South Atlantic whale sanctuary, ...
The proposal brought by five African and South American countries would have needed the support of three quarters of the International Whaling ...
About 70 percent of an estimated three million whales killed around the world between 1900 and 1999 were taken in southern hemisphere waters, say ...
Whaling nations defeated a renewed bid Tuesday by southern hemisphere states to create an Atlantic sanctuary for the marine mammals hunted to ...
Whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the South Atlantic won't be getting a vast, eight-million square mile sanctuary after the whaling nations of Iceland, ...
Bad news from the 2016 International Whaling Commission meeting – as the first significant vote was another disappointment for whales and ...
A new attempt to create a huge whale sanctuary across the southern Atlantic Ocean has been voted down at a meeting of the International Whaling ...
A push to create a protected area for whales in the South Atlantic fell through Tuesday after international delegates at a meeting of the International ...
At the International Whaling Commission meeting, pro-whaling countries have scuttled a proposal for a cetacean sanctuary in the South Atlantic - it's a ...
The tail of a southern right whale emerges from the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina. Photograph: Jose Luis Pasten/AP.