Posts Tagged ‘IWC2012’
Whaling Commission Meeting Ends for 2012
Changes that would have encouraged collaboration with the United Nations to further protect whales and dolphins in the high seas could not be agreed on by governments attending the final day of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama. Opposition from the whaling nations blocked consensus resulting in Monaco withdrawing its proposal and inviting countries…
Read MoreSouth Korea hints at a return to whaling
As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) talks in Panama entered their third day, representatives from the South Korean government took steps towards a return to whaling by announcing that they would be considering so called ‘scientific’ hunts in the future. The IWC’s founding treaty, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), allows contracting…
Read MoreWhaling Body Reacts To Commercial Sales Of Whale Meat In Greenland By Rejecting Quota Request
IWC plenary, Day 4 Following revelations by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) of the wide-spread commercial sale of whale meat in Greenland to tourists, concerned International Whaling Commission (IWC) Members States reacted today by refusing to grant Greenland any increase in its hunt of large whales for…
Read MoreDenmark talks of killing whales with 'baseball bats'
The most scary comments must come from the Danish delegation in their defence of the practice of feeding tourists with whales meant for aboriginal people. As reported by Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Denmark’s envoy Ole Samsing said that Greenland had a longstanding “non-racial” policy of not prohibiting ethnic groups from eating whale. He also rejected charges…
Read MoreGreenland Issues Bizarre Response To WDCS and AWI Undercover Investigations
IWC Day Two:The recent WDCS and AWI undercover investigations, revealing whale meat meant for the aboriginal people of Greenland is being sold to tourists visiting the country, seem to have upset the Greenlandic delegation on day two of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Panama. As the various governments present gathered to discuss the…
Read MoreThe EU Commission admits WDCS is right but throws up a procedural block to doing the right thing
After two and half years of campaigning on the issue of voting as a block at the IWC, the EU Commission finally agreed with WDCS that our interpretation of the rules was correct. Hurrah! WDCS should be celebrating all the good work done in partnership with Sandy Luk of Client Earth who have gone out…
Read MoreThe IWC breaks for lunch whilst Greenland tells the IWC that it won't stop serving whale meat for lunch to tourists
Greenland seems pretty angry at the WDCS and AWI investigations into their abuse of the ASW quota that they received last time. They state, That the authorities of Greenland hadn’t been contacted for this research (afraid it would not have done us any good to have told them we were looking at their commercialization) That…
Read MoreUS and Russia act as cover for St. Vincent ASW proposal
The last subject to be introduced in yesterday’s meeting was the ASW quota proposal for the US, Russian Federation and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The proposal was presented by the USA. There have been discussions around the meeting about the fact that these three quotas were presented together: nobody doubts that Alaskan and Russian…
Read MoreA Happy Return To/For The Blue … !
On the day that the 64th annual IWC meeting starts in Panama there is some good news surrounding one of the ocean’s giants. Normally when an animal the size of a blue whale strands, people scratch their heads and say not much can be done to save it, but when exactly this happened in the…
Read MorePro-whaling Nations Block Whale Sanctuary
The main agenda item on the opening day at this year’s IWC meeting in Panama has already caused controversy, as a Latin American-led proposal to declare the South Atlantic a whale sanctuary has been rejected after the pro-whaling nations and their allies blocked its progress. The South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary would promote conservation efforts aimed…
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