The Norwegian and Icelandic prime ministers welcomed on Monday a recommendation by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to relax a ban on commercial whaling.
Yearly Archives: 2006
The Pentagon on Friday exempted the Navy for six months from a law protecting whales and other marine mammals, a move that may allow planned naval exercises using military sonar to proceed despite a lawsuit.
The IWDG launched their new policy document – addressing commercial fishing – this week at Fish Ireland 2006 in Killybegs, Co Donegal. Commercial fishing is the human activity, which has one of the largest impacts on the marine environment and on those creatures that live therein. The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG), with our
Zoologists have developed a plan to save the Yangtze River dolphin, probably the world’s most endangered mammal, from extinction. BBC
Things have been a bit quiet around here for some time. Ok, Harbour Porpoise are still on the scene (although even these tend to head off presumably to birthing/breeding grounds through spring and early summer) but lovely as they are you can only get excited so much by them. It was getting to the point
Oil exploration poses threat to Inupiat whaling traditions Planet Ark
Ten Greenpeace activists were arrested in St. Kitts and Nevis on Tuesday after they tried to plant cardboard whale tails on a beach to protest the slaughter of whales while an international whaling group was meeting.
Conservation groups on Monday called on governments to redouble their efforts to save endangered whales after pro-whaling nations led by Japan won a majority at an international whaling meeting for the first time in more than 20 years.
Environmental group Greenpeace launched a campaign on Thursday aiming to persuade governments to declare 40 percent of the Mediterranean Sea marine reserves where fishing would be banned.
Japan and its allies won a pro-whaling vote for the first time in two decades on Sunday at an international meeting. Planet Ark