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Special IWC meeting to consider resumption of commercial whaling

Last edited 6 February 2001 at 9:00am
6 February, 2001

A special Intersessional meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in Monaco to "make further progress" on a Scheme that, if agreed, will take the world significantly closer to the resumption of large-scale commercial whaling.


The Revised Management Scheme (RMS) aims to establish a set of rules (including those covering inspection and observation) that would be used if the IWC agreed to allow countries to hunt whales for commercial purposes again. In the past, commercial whaling brought many whale populations to the brink of extinction - a fact which led the IWC to agree to an international moratorium on all commercial whaling, which has been in effect since 1986.

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Japanese consumer groups say NO to Norwegian export

Last edited 23 January 2001 at 9:00am
Minke whale

Minke whale

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Norwegian export decision update

Last edited 18 January 2001 at 9:00am
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whale meat

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Greenpeace calls for action against trade in whales

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

Greenpeace today called on the UK government to take strong diplomatic action against Norway, following their announcement yesterday that they intend to resume sales of whale blubber and meat to Japan.

The decision by Norway contravenes the international ban on trade in whale products agreed by CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species).

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Norwegian Government to grant export licenses?

Last edited 12 January 2001 at 9:00am
A dead whale is sliced in to whalemeat

Later this month the Norwegian Government will consider whether to grant export licenses to a number of Norwegian companies which are pressing to be allowed to sell whale meat and blubber to Japan.

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Whaling captain convicted of shooting at Greenpeace

Last edited 27 November 2000 at 9:00am
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Last Thursday (23rd of November) Stavanger City Court found Ole Mindor Myklebust guilty of shooting at two Greenpeace activists during a high seas action in 1999. Luckily neither of the activists, Dave Thoenen and Ulvar Arnkvarn, was hurt during the incident, but a bullet did pierce the pontoon of the inflatable that they had placed between a whaling vessel (the Kato) and a minke whale. The whaler was sentenced to a six months conditional prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 Norwegian kroner and his weapon (a high calibre Winchester rifle) has been confiscated.

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Japan's whalers head for the Southern Ocean Sanctuary once more.

Last edited 17 November 2000 at 9:00am

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Less than two months after returning from its expanded North Pacific hunt, the Japanese whaling fleet has today set off from its home port of Shimonoseki towards the Southern Ocean Sanctuary where it intends to kill a further 440 minke whales.

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Japan's attempts to justify its whaling misleading

Last edited 4 October 2000 at 8:00am
Another victim of the whaling industry

Another victim of the whaling industry

Many members of the public in the UK have written to the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Mori, to state their opposition to Japan's so-called 'scientific' whaling. The Japanese Embassy has responded with a standard letter which attempts to justify the North Pacific hunt. The letter is is deliberately misleading.

 

 

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Main outcomes of IWC meeting, July 2000

Last edited 31 July 2000 at 8:00am

Minke whale killed by whalers

Minke whale killed by whalers

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Japan and East Caribbean Nations block whale sanctuary vote

Last edited 4 July 2000 at 8:00am
4 July, 2000

Adelaide July 2000. The proposal by the governments of Australia and New Zealand to establish a South Pacific Whale Sanctuary failed today at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Adelaide, Australia.

Despite the proposal's defeat Greenpeace is encouraged by the strong support for the South Pacific Whale Sanctuary this year and welcomes the continued support of the governments of Australia and New Zealand to return with the proposal at next year's IWC meeting.

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