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Financial woes could spell the end to whaling

Press release | 28 September, 2012 at 12:17

Tokyo, September 26, 2012 – Greenpeace Japan and the Dolphin & Whale Action Network, a Japanese NGO, today demanded that the Japanese government end taxpayer subsidies for its unprofitable whaling industry as reports revealed that ongoing...

Norwegian whaling

Standard Page | 9 January, 2009 at 3:11

Norway resumed commercial whaling in 1993 as an attempt by the political party in power at the time to gain popularity in northern Norway.

Japanese Whaling

Hub | 30 October, 2009 at 4:29

Iceland

Standard Page | 11 May, 2011 at 9:42

Iceland is one of the three countries still engaged in commercial whaling - along with Norway it has a reservation against the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.

The whale hunt continues

Feature Story | 12 December, 2011 at 14:34

Another year, another whaling fleet leaves port bound for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Under the guise of scientific research, they are ready for a new season of senseless whale hunting. The reality is it’s a sham and the benefits remain...

Low demand delays Japanese Antarctic whaling hunt

Press release | 2 December, 2010 at 10:00

This morning at 10.52 Japanese time the whaling mothership Nisshin Maru crept out of the Japanese port of Innoshima sparking a delayed beginning to this year’s slaughter.

Unjust sentence for anti-whaling activists

Press release | 6 September, 2010 at 8:00

Greenpeace has condemned a one-year jail term, suspended for three years, imposed on two Greenpeace activists who exposed widespread corruption in the Japanese government’s Southern Ocean whaling programme.

Whaling On Trial

Report | 28 April, 2011 at 11:30

In early 2010, two Greenpeace activists went on trial in Japan in an unprecedented court case - one that court papers will register simply as a case of theft and trespass but which, over the course of the past two years, has become so much more.

What did the whales get at the IWC?

Feature Story | 29 June, 2010 at 8:00

Behind closed doors at the International Whaling Commission (IWC), governments essentially ushered in another year of status quo in which around 2000 whales may die needlessly.Once again, the IWC failed to deliver for whales.

Greenpeace won't compromise on commercial whaling

Feature Story | 22 June, 2010 at 8:00

Recently, there have been reports in The Age and on the ABC that suggest Greenpeace has 'softened' its position on whaling, and commercial whaling in particular. We haven’t and we won’t.

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