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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BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered can help save threatened whales
WWF this week has asked European banks behind a Russian off-shore oil development to do their ...
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Maui’s death in set net takes species one step closer to extinction
Reports that an endangered Maui’s dolphin has been killed in a fishing net off the coast of ...
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Day of the dolphin
The 24th of October is International Freshwater Dolphin Day, a day in the Greater Mekong to ...
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Narwhal tracking project helps chart species’ future
WWF is supporting a new project to track narwhals, Arctic whales best known for the long tusk that ...
