Sentences with phrase «commercial whale products»

In light of the recent passage of the vessel Winter Bay through Russia's Northern Sea Route (NSR), the organizations are calling on GLACIER delegates and President Obama — who will attend the conference — to ensure that an increasingly ice - free Arctic will not become a thoroughfare for trade in commercial whale products.

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Television commercials are about products only in the sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.

Without such action, Iceland's commercial whaling and its exports of the products of endangered fin whales to Japan will continue, and Hvalur's domination of the Japanese market will grow.

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.

Substitutes for whale products are widely available, so there is no place for commercial whaling in today's economy.

EIA has produced this short campaign film in the style of Rakuten's own «We R...» commercial to raise awareness of its sales of elephant and whale products...

The report also confirms that many of the products are from internationally protected great whale species including fin, sei, minke, sperm and Bryde's whale — all of whom are protected under the moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Swhaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered SWhaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.

Recognize that all whales require ongoing protection in the form of continued bans on commercial whaling and international trade in whale products.

It is also crucial to remember that Iceland's fin whaling operation targets an endangered species and defies the international moratorium on commercial whaling, in addition to flouting a CITES Appendix I listing by trading in whale products.

Agree that the commercial sale of whale products from scientific whaling operations must be prohibited.

«Fin whales continue to be slaughtered and shipped from Iceland to Japan, undermining the moratorium on commercial whaling and ban on international commercial trade in fin whale products,» said Amy Zets, Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) policy analyst.

Iceland's fin exports to date are worth an estimated US$ 50 million and clearly undermine both the IWC moratorium and the ban on international commercial trade in fin whale products imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

CITES responded to the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling by transferring all whales species to its Appendix I, thereby prohibiting international commercial trade in whale products.

The Pelly Amendment authorizes the president to impose trade sanctions against another country for «diminishing the effectiveness» of conservation agreements: In Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prWhaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prwhaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale products.

«There is no reason to continue commercial whaling if there is no demand for the product.»

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.