Greenland asked an international whaling body on Saturday to examine whether it could extend whaling by its Inuit hunters to endangered humpbacks and bowheads, alarming environmentalists.
Yearly Archives: 2006
Japan suffered a resounding defeat on Friday at the International Whaling Commission, calming fears among conservationists that it might finally win enough support in the world body to start attacking a ban on whaling.
Toxic chemicals are harming Arctic animals including polar bears, beluga whales, seals and seabirds, the environmental group WWF said on Thursday. Planet A
The Japanese public no longer likes eating whale meat and Tokyo’s argument that whaling should be maintained to meet consumer demand is a fabrication, a conservationist group said on Tuesday.
A ship used by environmental group Greenpeace to confront Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean has been refused permission to dock in the Caribbean island state of St. Kitts and Nevis, where a global whaling group will meet this week.
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG), together with the Marine Institute and National Parks and Wildlife Service are proud to be hosting the first Irish Cetacean Research Seminar entitled Towards a Joint Cetacean Sightings Database for Ireland at the new Marine Institute building at Oranmore, Galway. This is the first public scientific conference to
The IWDG is saddened to learn of the death of former Taoiseach, Charlie Haughey. Outside of his political career Mr Haughey was a keen mariner and had a life long interest in marine widlife.
The IWDG would like to welcome all those people who have logged onto this site for the first time after visiting the IWDG stands at World Oceans Day.
Japan plans a new group for nations that support commercial whaling in a bid to end a 20-year ban on the activity, officials said, reiterating threats to leave the International Whaling Commission if it didn’t lift the ban.
The endangered Indus river dolphin has dramatically increased in numbers in a small section of the Indus in Pakistan but the animals remain very rare and in grave danger, a scientist said on Wednesday.