International Whaling Commission (IWC)
The world's great whales were hunted to near extinction in the previous century, and despite a global moratorium on commercial whaling, several countries continue to whale commercially - Norway and Iceland using objections to the moratorium, Japan under the guise of 'scientific research'.
The International Whaling Commission is the body charged with regulating whaling, and increasingly dealing with the vast number of other threats to whales, dolphins and porpoises in our oceans such as shipping, climate change, and bycatch the incidental capture of these animals in fishing gear. WWF is working to make the IWC more effective in reducing all these threats to whales.
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Whaling News
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Saving one turtle at a time in Bali
The Hindu community of Bali has traditionally used marine turtles for religious ceremonies for ...
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Working together to save the dolphins of the Mekong River
Today the population of 85 Irrawaddy dolphins that inhabits the Mekong River in Cambodia faces ...
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New research hopes to save Irrawaddy dolphins from extinction in the Mekong
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WWF deeply concerned over deaths of vulnerable Yangtze finless porpoises
WWF is deeply concerned over the reported deaths of over 32 vulnerable Yangtze finless porpoises ...
