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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Mexico approves measure to save world's rarest marine mammal
The government of Mexico has taken a decisive step to save the vaquita - a porpoise threatened by ...
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Good news for sharks at Indian Ocean Tuna Commission meeting
WWF welcomes the adoption of key conservation measures for oceanic white-tip sharks, whale sharks ...
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Yangtze finless porpoise population nosedives to 1,000
The Yangtze finless porpoise population has declined to a mere 1,000 individuals, making the ...
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Help save the world's smallest, rarest porpoise
In the upper part of Mexico's Gulf of California lives the world's smallest porpoise, the vaquita. ...
