Dolphin Smile » International Whaling Commission http://dolphinsmile.org Swim with the Dolphins and explore the island of Hawaii! Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:13:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 International Whaling Commission Meeting http://dolphinsmile.org/international-whaling-commission-meeting/ http://dolphinsmile.org/international-whaling-commission-meeting/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:53:27 +0000 Scott http://dolphinsmile.org/international-whaling-commission-meeting/ The IWC recently met and the Japanese are pressuring the IWC delegates to approve of their Antartic Whale hunt in 2009 or they will kill Humpback Whales as well as the Fin and Minke whales. Go to www.seashepherd.org for more details. 

]]> http://dolphinsmile.org/international-whaling-commission-meeting/feed/ 1 Europe Unites To Defend The Whales http://dolphinsmile.org/europe-unites-to-defend-the-whales/ http://dolphinsmile.org/europe-unites-to-defend-the-whales/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:52:03 +0000 Scott http://dolphinsmile.org/europe-unites-to-defend-the-whales/ The European Union agreed on June 5, 2009 to take a unified stand against whaling. Environmental ministers meeting in Luxembourg adopted a common position that supports the current moratorium against commercial whaling,  sets up whale sanctuaries,  and encourages the use of non-lethal methods to collect scientific data. “There is no need to kill whales to obtain scientific information about whales as adequate data for management purposes can be obtained using non-lethal techniques,” said the EU’s Executive Commission.

The European Commission has been working diligently to establish this joint position, and even though the 27 nation bloc is not yet a party to the International Whaling Commission it can still take a strong role at the IWC meeting in Santiago, Chile later this month by using it’s moral, political, and economic weight to ensure more effective protection of whales worldwide. 

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