Icelandic whalers find route to market via Canada
After being thrown out of European ports the Icelandic whalers have found a route to their Japanese markets via ports and rail in Canada. A shipment of fin whales meat has been transported across...
View ArticleJapanese internet giant bans whale product sales
Internet retail giant Rakuten has announced it is terminating sales of whale products through its Japanese marketplace Rakuten Ichiba and has given merchants 30 days to remove them. The move came...
View ArticleWill Japan return to whaling in 2015?
Papers filed by Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research against the Sea Shepherd organisation in the US courts yesterday (Friday 11th April) indicated that Japan may be returning to the Antarctic for...
View ArticleJapan cuts Pacific whale quota by 45%
Japan has stated that the annual whale quota from the North Pacific whale hunt is to be cut by 45% – from 380 whales to 210. The start of the whaling hunt will also be delayed for 4 days so that the...
View ArticleEuropean campaign warns seafood expo: ‘don’t support whale slaughter’
An alliance of 13 leading conservation groups is this week urging major buyers at Europe’s biggest seafood trade show not to do business with Icelandic seafood company HB Grandi because of its strong...
View ArticleNorwegian minister pledges to push whale meat sales in Japan
Elisabeth Aspaker, Norway’s fisheries minister, has said that she will push for greater sales of whale meat caught by Norwegian whalers into Japan’s markets. She made the promise in an interview on...
View ArticleIceland kills first fin whale of the season
Conservation groups are calling on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its member governments to condemn Iceland’s commercial whale hunt following confirmation that the Icelandic whaling...
View ArticleNew report on whaling released as IWC prepares to meet in Slovenia
A new report today calls for the international community and vested commercial interests to take tough action to end Iceland’s ongoing slaughter of endangered fin whales. Slayed in Iceland: The...
View ArticleIceland reprimanded by 35 countries over whaling
A formal diplomatic protest, known as a démarche, was today delivered to the Icelandic Government in Reykjavik. The top-level protest registered countries’ “strong opposition” to Iceland’s continued...
View ArticleRound up of IWC meeting
The meeting of the International Whaling Commission took place last week in Slovenia covered a range of topics. Here are the main highlights and outcomes of that meeting. Probably the most...
View ArticleAnquish over Iceland’s fin whale hunt
Three leading international NGO’s have reacted with concerns over news reports that Iceland will be resuming its hunt for endangered fin whales from June. The hunt is expected to last for 3 months....
View ArticleJapan’s whalers set sail for the Pacific
Japanese whaling boats set sail yesterday for the Pacific Ocean with their sights set on a target of 260 whales. They are sailing under the scientific research exemption of the whaling ban. Two whaling...
View ArticleFaroe Islands hunt: 590 dead whales so far this year
Some of the world’s leading environmental and marine conservation organisations have come together to write a letter to the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands to halt one of the worlds most prolific...
View ArticleKorea backs down over whaling
One of the most disappointing outcomes of the July meeting of International Whaling Commission (IWC) was the announcement that the Republic of Korea would resume whaling for scientific purposes....
View ArticleIcelandic whalers go on hunt for…. dog food
What do you do with the meat from endangered species that people are no longer prepared to eat? In the case of the Icelandic whalers they turn the meat from endangered fin whales into doggie treats for...
View ArticleIceland drags back first fin whale of season
After just a couple of days at sea the Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf have dragged back to port their first harpooned fin whale of the season. Tow boats left port at Reykjavik on Sunday and the...
View ArticleMore shipping companies refuse to handle whale meat
Whale meat from the Icelandic whaling company owned by Kristjan Loftsson has returned to Reykjavik as shipping companies and ports start to boycott the whaling industry. The whale meat has returned...
View ArticleThe brutality of a nation – 267 whales killed in a day
It is difficult to visualise a beach and coastline covered in blood but that is what must have happened on 30th July in Fuglafjørður at the Faroe Islands. On that one single day 267 pilot whales was...
View ArticleScottish University supporting Icelandic whaling
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland are using data from dead whales from Iceland’s whaling missions for ‘scientific studies’. According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare...
View ArticleIceland signs death warrants of 770 endangered fin whales
Last Friday the Icelandic government quietly signed off the quota of whales to be killed over the next five years. The total includes 770 endangered fin whales and 1145 minke whales. Despite Iceland’s...
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