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International Whaling Commission

Type: Organization

Name: International Whaling Commission (IWC)

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for International Whaling Commission

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 6 Documents

Whaling compromise advocated

Court action against Japan over whaling could fail and put anti-whaling countries in a worse position, New Zealand's representative to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) says.Australia has threatened to take a case to the International Court of ... [Published 3 hours ago by stuff.co.nz]

Entities: International Whaling Commission, Japan, Iceland, New Zealand

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 Documents

European Union

Illegal whale meat imported in the European Union

From a 'PR Newswire' article: In defiance of international law and a global whaling ban, Icelandic government records state that the country is exporting meat from slaughtered whales to Latvia, Denmark, but also to Japan.Statistics Iceland, the source ... [Published 11 hours ago by Polar Conservation Organisation]

Entities: European Union, Latvia, International Whaling Commission, Iceland

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Iceland exporting whale meal to Denmark, say conservation groups

JUST days after a shipment of whale meat illegally exported from Iceland was seized in Latvia, an even bigger haul of protected whale products processed into tonnes of animal feed may already be in circulation in Danish farms, says the Whale and Dolphin ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by fishnewseu.com]

Entities: Iceland, Denmark, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Agriculture, International Whaling Commission

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 2 Documents

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society: Illegal Icelandic whale meal exports into Denmark...

BusinessWire - Just days after a shipment of whale meat illegally exported from Iceland was seized in Latvia, an even bigger haul of protected whale products processed into tonnes of animal feed may already be in circulation in Danish farms, says the ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Forbes.com]

Entities: Iceland, Denmark, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, International Whaling Commission, Latvia

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 14 Documents

John Kerry

Kerry Introduces Whale Protection Bill

United States Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) has introduced a new bill that would reaffirm the country's support of a ban on commercial whaling and fund research to help protect various species of the oceanic mammals from harm."Thousands of whales ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Red Orbit]

Entities: International Whaling Commission, John Kerry, Habitat, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Roman Catholic Church

Sound Off: Your comments 3/15/10

Editor's Note: Your feedback was mainly about health care reform. Those on each side of the debate are unclear about the merits of the opposing argument. Some of you praised the information on “whale sushi,” and asked for more in depth reporting on ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Anderson Cooper 360]

Entities: Roman Catholic Church, Abuse, Health Care Reform, INOVA

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

International Whaling Commission

Roundup 3/15: The Hunt Is On Edition

's the annual Isaac Asimov debate at the Hayden Planetarium. It's summary asks, "Should NASA return to the Moon, where man has already walked, or proceed directly to Mars?"British universities are being forced to reveal details of animal experiments conducted ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Science Magazine]

Entities: Isaac Asimov, International Whaling Commission, John Kerry, Iceland

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Bridget Vercoe: Whaling cop-out will bring an ocean of discontent

Bizarrely, New Zealand, whose priority has always been the conservation and protection of whales, is now considering supporting a deal which would see the ban on commercial whaling overturned in return for Japan reducing its so-called "scientific" wh ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by New Zealand Herald]

Entities: International Whaling Commission, New Zealand, Geoffrey Palmer, Murray McCully

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Harpooning Caribbean tourism

Sir Ronald SandersConsultant and former Caribbean Diplomat Japan's whaling industry is quite controversial It's the high seas equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot. Several Caribbean governments are harpooning their own sustainable tourism industry ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by BBC Caribbean]

Entities: International Whaling Commission, Japan, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Iceland, Dominica

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 4 Documents

Whale expedition lays down challenge to Japan

The Niwa ship Tangaroa has returned to New Zealand after carrying an international crew of scientists to the Antarctic to conduct research intended to show that whales can be studied without being killed. Footage supplied by Niwa.Scientists have returned ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by stuff.co.nz]

Entities: International Whaling Commission, Japan, Peter Garrett

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Australian Government Needs to Get Serious over Whaling

Sea Shepherd battles with Japanese Whaler. Credit: guano/flickr By Alex Schlotzer : It would seem that whales will soon join many other species and be lost from our world. This slide towards inevitable extinction of ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by theangle.org]

Entities: International Whaling Commission, Australian Government, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Japan, Species

First Reported Mar 14 2010 - Updated Mar 14 2010 - 1 Documents

Harpooning Caribbean Tourism: Swallowing a dead rat

It's the high seas equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot. Several Caribbean governments are harpooning their own sustainable tourism industry by supporting Japan's ruthless campaign to continue killing whales.A group of International Whaling Commission ... [Published Mar 14 2010 by Jamaica Observer]

Entities: International Whaling Commission, Japan, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Iceland, Dominica

Quotes

If the proposal was agreed to it would not lift the moratorium but would qualify it to allow a set number of whales to be killed. "What I am saying is that we want fewer whales, many fewer whales killed than are being killed at the moment, Let's look at the facts, let's be realistic, let's not be emotional." Foreign Minister Murray McCully has previously said that any deal on allowing whaling would have to be very attractive and reductions significant to...

Whaling compromise advocated [stuff.co.nz - 3 hours ago]

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Whaling compromise advocated [stuff.co.nz - 3 hours ago]
Japan whaling case could fail [Sky News Australia - 4 hours ago]
Palmer urges compromise on whaling debate [New Zealand Herald - 5 hours ago]
Whaling debate: 'We can’t stop the killing' - d... [3 News - 6 hours ago]
Whaling compromise, not court says Govt [Christchurch Press - 6 hours ago]
Taking Japan to court over whaling might be ste... [Guide2.co.nz - 7 hours ago]
Illegal whale meat imported in the European Union [Polar Conservation Organisation - 11 hours ago]
Iceland exporting whale meal to Denmark, say co... [fishnewseu.com - Mar 20 2010]
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society: Illegal... [Forbes.com - Mar 19 2010]
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society: Illegal... [EuroInvestor.co.uk - Mar 19 2010]
Whaling `could damage tourism' [Marlborough Express - Mar 18 2010]
Something's Wrong with Right Whales [Wildlife Conservation Society - Mar 18 2010]
Study finds whale cull unnecessary [Emirates Business 24/7 - Mar 17 2010]
Spare a thought for the Japanese voice of anti-... [Crikey Media - Mar 17 2010]
Anti-whaling protest staged outside PM's office [New Zealand Herald - Mar 17 2010]
Whales Dying in Record Numbers Near Argentina [Discovery Channel - Mar 16 2010]
Experts Gather to Solve Mystery of Largest Reco... [Wildlife Conservation Society - Mar 16 2010]
Kerry Introduces Whale Protection Bill [Red Orbit - Mar 16 2010]
Senator Kerry introduces bill to protect whales [Examiner.com - Mar 16 2010]
Anti-whaling campaigner gets Greens support [3 News - Mar 16 2010]
USA's whaling bill [iafrica.com - Mar 16 2010]
Greens push for action to help anti-whaling cam... [Yahoo! News Australia - Mar 16 2010]
California sushi bar sorry for serving whale meat [CNN - Mar 16 2010]
Restaurant sorry for selling whale meat [CNN - Mar 16 2010]
US senator moves to protect whales [France24 - Mar 15 2010]
US senator moves to protect whales (AFP) [Yahoo! News - Mar 15 2010]
US senator moves to protect whales [France24 - Africa - Mar 15 2010]
US senator moves to protect whales [France24 - europe - Mar 15 2010]
US senator moves to protect whales [France24 - Science - Mar 15 2010]
US senator moves to protect whales [France24 - culture - Mar 15 2010]

Blogs

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Sound Off: Your comments 3/15/10 [Anderson Cooper 360 - Mar 16 2010] Editor's Note: Your feedback was mainly about health care reform. Those on each side of the debate are unclear about the merits of the opposing argument. Some of ...
Australian Government Needs to Get Serious over... [theangle.org - Mar 15 2010] Sea Shepherd battles with Japanese Whaler. Credit: guano/flickr By Alex Schlotzer: It would seem that whales will soon join many other species and be ...
EU - bloc vote or blocked vote? [BBC Blogs: Richard Black's Earth Watch - Mar 09 2010] The somewhat abstruse and legal-jargon-adorned world of internal European Union politics is likely to have a key role to play in two big forthcoming decisions concerning ...
Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 8: New Zealand... [The Greenpeace weblog - Mar 08 2010] This is part of a trial series Canned Tuna in New World Supermarket, New Zealand 03/26/2009 New Zealand says âyesâ to commercial whaling New Zealanders ...
Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 2: Netherlands... [The Greenpeace weblog - Mar 02 2010] This is part of a trial series Greenpeace raises awareness of new nuclear plant plans In Middelburg, Zeeland, the Netherlands, Greenpeace activists display ...

Audio/Video

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Fears over Japan porpoise hunting [Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 12 2010]