Sentences with phrase «commercial whaling nations»

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Commercial whaling during the 20th century killed some 22,000 animals annually, causing severe declines in almost all large whale species before most nations stopped whaling in 1986.

It is now imperative that whale - friendly nations across the world come together to increase maximum pressure on Japan to abide by the legally agreed moratorium on commercial whaling and stop trying to work around it.

Even so, this is but a small percentage of the number of whales taken in prior decades, and the number of nations involved in commercial whaling and related international trade has decreased significantly.

Some 35,000 whales have been taken by whalers in the years since 1986, when the IWC adopted the commercial whaling moratorium, and there are IWC member nations that continue to promote commercial whaling and international trade in the face of the many significant threats to the well - being and survival of cetaceans.

While some nations look for a return to commercial whaling, pro-whale forces have redoubled their efforts to establish whale sanctuaries in as many oceans as possible.

* Iceland is a pro-whaling nation that resumed small - scale commercial whaling in 2006 following five years of research whaling.

But such a compromise, which would have reauthorized commercial whaling for the first time in 30 years, was a no - go for too many nations.

Hogarth also initiated the formation of a working group to decide the future of the body through closed - door meetings involving a compromise to appease all member nations, which must include a resumption of some measure of commercial whaling to satisfy the pro-whaling countries.

* Norway is a pro-whaling nation that engages in commercial whaling.

Australia's Donna Petrachenko delivered a succinct rejection, underscoring that for many nations the Japanese proposal was plainly a request for an exemption to the moratorium on commercial whaling.

Korea's proposal, foretold in its opening statement, ran smack into science itself, meeting quick condemnation by whale - friendly nations that cast it as a means of opening the door to commercial whaling, while citing the quality of non-lethal research being carried out by many nations worldwide.

But these nations» energy and resources will be better spent making inroads into closing down an outmoded industry rather than propping it up while dangerously renewing hopes for the resumption of full - scale commercial whaling.

We call upon conservation minded nations to act decisively to set a course that leads to an end to commercial whaling.

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Even nations that were once strongly opposed to a resumption of commercial whaling seem prepared to concede.

Urging whale - friendly member nations to press for stronger protection for whales, and firmly opposing strategies to undermine the commercial whaling moratorium, such as continuing calls to establish a new category of commercial whaling known as «small type coastal whaling»;

Japanese coastal whaling proposal, clearly in breach of the commercial moratorium, was broadly opposed by pro-conservation nations, and it failed to achieve the required three quarters majority needed for a schedule amendment.