A four-decade-old moratorium on commercial whaling will remain in force after a proposal to overturn it was withdrawn ...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

The 1982 commercial whaling moratorium is one of the conservation movement's iconic achievements, and environment groups and anti-whaling nations are, at least on the surface, lined up four-square ...

With declining demand for whale products, a growing awareness of the intelligence and sentience of whales and their role in the ecosystem, and increased understanding of whale suffering at the hands ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On Dec. 6, Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters. It granted the fin whale hunting license to Hvalur hf.