The IWDG recently adopted a new 5 year plan. Since 2000, the IWDG has grown into a credible, effective NGO with a growing membership and increasing influence on government policy and actions. In order to ensure the work of the IWDG is focused and efficient and its limited resources are put to good use the
Yearly Archives: 2005
Australia will lobby South Pacific island nations this week to try to head off Japan’s push to increase its annual whale hunt as Canberra steps up its diplomatic offensive against Japanese whaling.
Environmentalists have sued the US Interior Department for taking too long to put Alaska sea otters on the threatened species list. PLanet Ark
At the crossroads of three continents, the Mediterranean is the largest semi-enclosed sea in the world. BBC
It is rare for a cooking class to court political controversy, but in Tokyo on Saturday, the Women’s Forum for Fish was doing just that, teaching whale meat recipes as an international row over whale hunting brewed.
Costa Rica and more than 1,000 scientists from around the world will ask the United Nations on Monday to ban a form of industrial fishing they say menaces an endangered sea turtle and other marine creatures.
Up to 160 whales became stranded on two beaches on Australia’s southwest coast on Thursday after two pods beached themselves. PLanet Ark
Australia will lead 15 countries including Ireland, Britain, France and Germany in a protest on Thursday against Japan’s plans to expand its annual whale hunt. <
On 29 May, IWDG member, Andrew Malcolm, who is a regular watcher off Ram Head, Ardmore, Co. Waterford, observed at least five fin whales and another sp. which may have been a humpback, during an “effort watch”. This is the earliest records of fin whales off the Irish south coast, which in previous years have
Fines for illegal fishing in Europe are a drop in the ocean, the European Union’s executive Commission said on Monday, urging states to punish those who flout the rules by suspending their fishing licences instead.