A four-decade-old moratorium on commercial whaling will remain in force after a proposal to overturn it was withdrawn ...

Not until 1982 did the IWC finally vote to stop the madness. In 1986, after a four year phase-out period, a global moratorium on commercial whaling was imposed, to remain in effect until scientific ...

Icelanders are at a point of reckoning – how to balance traditional practices with contemporary realities. Read more at ...

Jupiter resident Mike Lee was plying the azure waters off the coast of Palm Beach County looking for bait last month when he ...

So in 1986, all IWC members agreed to a hunting moratorium to allow whale numbers to recover. Conservationists were happy but whaling countries - like Japan, Norway and Iceland - assumed the ...

Why did Japan withdraw from the IWC? The IWC has imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling since the 1980s and Japan switched to research whaling in accordance with this. But the practice was ...

Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters.

The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship ... compiling data that would eventually justify ending the moratorium. But Japan's push to get the ban lifted made ...

Iceland, one of only three countries still allowing whale hunting, on Thursday issued permits to two whaling companies for the next five years, until 2029, the outgoing government announced.