IWC

Antarctic expedition leader hits out at 'silent Straw'

Last edited 16 January 2002 at 9:00am
16 January, 2002

The British leader of an international team in the Antarctic has demanded that Jack Straw 'gets serious about Japan's efforts to secure a return to full-scale commercial whaling' after the Foreign Secretary failed to publicly condemn attempts by the Japanese government's use of development aid to buy votes in support of commercial whaling.

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Greenpeace films Japanese harpooning whale turning water cannon on volunteers

Last edited 17 December 2001 at 9:00am
17 December, 2001

Japanese whalers operating in Antarctic waters today blasted Greenpeace volunteers with powerful water cannons after a helicopter captured rare footage of a whale being harpooned.

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Whale sanctuaries overview

Last edited 8 November 2001 at 9:00am
Japanese whalers harpooning a minke

Japanese whalers harpooning a minke whale

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Norway and the whales

Last edited 8 November 2001 at 9:00am
A dead whale is sliced in to whalemeat

A dead whale is sliced in to whalemeat

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Japanese whaling

Last edited 8 November 2001 at 9:00am
Japanese whalers claim to be collecting 'scientific samples'

Japanese whalers claim to be collecting 'scientific samples'

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What future for the whales?

Last edited 8 November 2001 at 9:00am
Greenpeace protesters alongside a dead whale are dragged inside a whaling ship

Greenpeace protesters alongside a dead whale are dragged inside a whaling ship

CITES
All trade in endangered species is governed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Following the IWC's announcement of a whaling moratorium in 1982, CITES classified the great whales as protected species, and outlawed international trade in whale products.

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Oceans campaign: what Greenpeace is doing

Last edited 8 November 2001 at 9:00am
IWC53: Watching the whalers

IWC53: Watching the whalers

A return to full-scale commercial whaling could be just a hair's breadth away. Although the 1986 moratorium on whaling dramatically reduced the number of whales being caught, hunting still goes on. Now Norway and Japan are seeking to remove the protected status of whales and resume international trade. This would be a disaster for whales. In response to this threat. Greenpeace is demanding an end to all commercial whaling, once and for all. All whale species must be permanently protected.

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Worldwide protest urges Japanese whaling fleet: "Don't go!"

Last edited 5 November 2001 at 9:00am
5 November, 2001

Today two giant eyeballs delivered a message to the Japanese Embassy in London imploring the Japanese Prime Minister not to send his whaling fleet to Antarctica to hunt minke whales, and to let Japan know the world is watching. The message delivery is part of a Greenpeace global day of action against whaling.

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Greenpeace guide to the Great whales

Last edited 29 October 2001 at 9:00am
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29 October, 2001

In total, 1.5 million whales were killed by commercial whalers in the fifty years from 1925 to 1975, the year that Greenpeace began its long running campaign to stop commercial whaling. Many of the world's whale populations had been taken to the brink of extinction and this massive destruction was only stopped when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed a moratorium on all commercial whaling in 1986. Of the nine countries still whaling when the moratorium decision was taken, seven had ceased by 1990, but two countries, Japan and Norway, did not.

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Increasing environmental threats to whale populations exposed as IWC is overshadowed by Japanese vote buying

Last edited 27 July 2001 at 8:00am
27 July, 2001

As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting ended in London today, Greenpeace stressed that Japanese vote buying (1) has prevented vital steps from being taken to protect the world's remaining whale populations, such as the creation of South Pacific and South Atlantic whale sanctuaries. Greenpeace also warned that the threats posed to all whale populations by man- made environmental degradation of the oceans are being grossly under estimated. (2)

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