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Ambitious plan to free captive orca Lolita announced

31st March 2023
The new owner of the Miami Seaquarium in the US has announced that it is...
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UN adopts High Seas Treaty to protect the ocean

6th March 2023
At the UN 'High Seas Treaty' negotiations in New York, a historic vote for the...

Hopes raised for whale and dolphin protection after last minute landmark nature agreement

20th December 2022
WDC's Ed Goodall (far right) at COP15 with Thérèse Coffey (centre) UK Secretary of State...

WDC orca champion picks up award

9th December 2022
Beatrice Whishart MSP picks up her Nature Champion award The Scottish Environment LINK, an organisation...
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Jul 30

Minke whale hunts stop in Iceland

By Katharina Khalife
Iceland’s commercial hunt of minke whales has ended for this year. The common minke whale is the...
Port River dolphins
Aug 06

New report reveals 100,000 dolphins and small whales hunted every year

By Nicola Hodgins
When you hear the words ‘dolphin hunts’ it’s likely that you think of Japan or...
Jun 25

Japan set to resume commercial whaling

By Danny Groves
Reports from Japan suggest that the government they will formally propose plans to resume commercial...
May 21

End the whale hunts! Icelandic fin whaler isolated as public mood shifts

By Vanessa Williams-Grey
Here’s a sight I hoped never again to witness. A boat being scrubbed and repainted...
Jul 04

Australian Government to block Japanese whaling proposal

By Katharina Khalife
Japanese Government officials have reportedly confirmed that they will propose the resumption of commercial whaling...
Jul 18

Did Icelandic whalers really kill a blue whale?

By Vanessa Williams-Grey
*Warning - this blog contains an image that you may find upsetting* They say a...
Jul 11

Icelandic whalers breach international law and kill iconic, protected whale by mistake

By Danny Groves
Icelandic whalers out hunting fin whales for the first time in three years appear to...
May 30

Pregnant whales once again a target for Japanese whalers

By George Berry
Figures from Japan's whaling expedition to Antarctica during the 2017/18 austral summer have revealed that...
Jul 20

Doubts remain after Icelandic Marine Institute claims slaughtered whale was a hybrid not a blue

By Katharina Khalife
Experts remain sceptical of initial test results issued by the Icelandic Marine Institute, which indicate...
Apr 04

Norway's whaling season begins

By George Berry
April 1st saw the start of the whaling season in Norway. Despite a widely-accepted international moratorium...
Mar 09

SOS alert for whales off Norway!

By Vanessa Williams-Grey
I have to admit to bitter disappointment when I arrived in Tromsø, northern Norway, a...
Apr 17

Icelandic fin whale hunting to resume

By Danny Groves
Iceland’s only fin whaling company, Hvalur hf,  announced today that it will resume fin whaling...

Forty-seven minke whales killed to see how old they were

By Danny Groves | 11th July 2017

Japanese whale hunters have finished their latest so-called ‘scientific’ expedition off the coast of Abashiri, Hokkaido, killing 47 minke whales.

The Japanese Fisheries Agency will now analyse the age and stomach contents of the whales in the name of scientific research, and report the data to the IWC (International Whaling Commission – the body that regulates whale hunting). 

Nine males and 38 females were caught during the killing season, from June 11th to June 26th. 

This whaling expedition is one part of the Japanese Northwest Pacific coastal scientific whaling programme planned for 2017. Separate from this, the highly controversial offshore scientific whaling in the Northwest Pacific also continues despite criticism from the IWC and international scientific experts that the hunts are ‘unjustified, and should be halted’.

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