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EIA Campaigners will be blogging on a daily basis from the IWC. Day 4 – Thursday 14th July – The Last Day After the great result on the UK governance proposal, we sped through some other business last night – agreeing important items such as the Audited Accounts, the budget and other financial and [...]
How Iceland is creating a new trade in fin whale meat for Japan
A report on Iceland’s creation of a trade in endangered fin whales for Japanese consumers
ICELAND: A DEATH TRAP FOR FIN WHALES Over the years, your support has made a big difference in EIA’s efforts to save endangered cetaceans from indiscriminate slaughter. Among our accomplishments, we have exposed and reduced the unsustainable Dall’s porpoise hunt in Japanand have reduced the demand for cetacean meat within the country. We would have [...]
A TOTAL of 1,115 pilot whales have been brutally slaughtered in the Faroe Islands so far this year, making it the largest kill of any whale species in the world. Environmental and animal welfare organisations are deeply concerned about the escalation of these hunts, as more whales have been killed in 2010 than in any [...]
On 1st November the world’s largest cetacean hunt – the Dall’s porpoise hunt – resumed again. I was in the small fishing port of Otsuchi in northern Japan earlier this year, with a cameraman and fixer, to film and document the porpoises being landed. It was a depressing and frustrating trip. We were treated with [...]