Sentences with phrase «ban whale hunting»

The historic low population counts when we finally put together an international agreement to ban whale hunting?

Not exact matches

Currently, a trio of nations — Japan, Norway, and Iceland — continue to hunt, despite the ban, doing so through loopholes in the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, a 1946 treaty.

Once abundant, blue whales were hunted to just 500 individuals before a ban on commercial whaling came in during the 1960s.

After hunting was banned by the International Whaling Commission in 1966, blue whale numbers began to slowly recover.

The Atlantic study has not found the reason for the poor reproduction of the right whale since a hunting ban went into effect 70 years ago.

This hunt has been allowed under an «aboriginal / subsistence whaling» exception to the commercial - hunting ban.

Although commercial whaling has largely been banned in the Pacific, the International Whaling Commission allows sea hunting by aboriginal peoples whose economic and cultural survival is atwhaling has largely been banned in the Pacific, the International Whaling Commission allows sea hunting by aboriginal peoples whose economic and cultural survival is atWhaling Commission allows sea hunting by aboriginal peoples whose economic and cultural survival is at stake.

25 July 2014, 2.35 pm AEST Could this be one reason why whale populations have not recovered following hunt ban?

If hunting humpback whale is banned, Japan should stop doing it, not give an exaplem for the world.

The U.S. and other International Whaling Commission (IWC) member countries have tried for years to persuade Iceland to end its commercial whaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whaliWhaling Commission (IWC) member countries have tried for years to persuade Iceland to end its commercial whaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whaliwhaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whalingwhaling ban.

Despite a moratorium on commercial whaling and a ban on international trade of whale products, countries such as Iceland continue to hunt whales for their markets.

Under an objection to the global moratorium on commercial whaling and a reservation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ban on international trade in minke whales, Norway is able to legally hunt and trade minke whales.

Ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop targeting fin whales and refrain from hunting humpback whales in violation of IWC regulation 19 (a), Paragraph 10 (d), which bans the use of factory ships to process any whales except minke whales.

The IWC has imposed a moratorium on the hunting of 10 species of whales (blue, bowhead, fin, gray, humpback, minke, pygmy right, right, sei, and sperm), and that moratorium only applies to nations who are members of the IWC and have not formally objected to the ban.

Under an exemption to the international ban on commercial whaling, Greenland can hunt whales for local consumption.

In 2006, the Icelandic government stated it would no longer respect an international ban on commercial whaling; it issued permits for the commercial hunting of nine endangered fin whales and 30 minke whales.

From the outset of their large - scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death...

They are the World the World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU law banning seal products, and the decision of the International Court of Justice that Japan's Antarctic whale hunt is not exempt from the international moratorium on commercial whaling because it does not qualify for the scientific research exemption under international whaling law.