Whale sanctuaries are places of refuge, off-limits to whaling, where whale populations can breed, feed and continue their slow recovery from years of exploitation. Sanctuaries offer critical opportunities to promote whale conservation and real,...

In 1982 Norway lodged an objection to the moratorium decision. By 1993 Norway had recommenced commercial whaling. Since then it has simply ignored the international ban despite opposition from the majority of IWC members.

Greenpeace is working to bring international and domestic pressure on the Japanese Fisheries Agency to end the hunt for whales in the Southern Ocean.

When the International Whaling Commission was formed in 1946, its preamble noted that, "The history of whaling has seen overfishing of one area after another and of one species of whale after another to such a degree that it is essential to...

Expectations for the recovery of whale populations have been based on the assumption that, except for commercial whaling, a whale’s place in the ocean is as secure as it was a hundred years ago. Sadly, this assumption is no longer true.

Iceland announced plans to resume “scientific” whaling in 2003. During August and September of 2003, 36 minke whales were killed and the meat from those whales was sold on the commercial market.