Sentences with phrase «endangered whale meat»

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South Korea belongs to the IWC, and last year joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which bans trade in whale meat.

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They are violating an international ban on whaling, illegally slaughtering these intelligent, sensitive, endangered mammals for MEAT not for «science».

Just before President Obama visited the Arctic in August, an Icelandic seafood company quietly sent 1,800 tons of frozen meat hacked from slaughtered endangered fin whales through the Arctic to Japan.

The Obama administration has strongly criticized Iceland for resuming international trade in the meat from its expanding hunt for fin whales, the second largest whale species and one still listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Spendangered under the United States Endangered SpEndangered Species Act.

They are continue to kill a sea mammal that does not belong to their country, is endangered, they do it under the umbrella of «scientific research» when there are non-lethal ways to conduct the same research and whale meat is in huge over-supply in Japan yet they continue to hunt more whales.

On January 31, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell certified under section 8 of the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 (the «Pelly Amendment»)(22 U.S.C. 1978), that nationals of Iceland are conducting trade in whale meat and products that diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

«Killing for Commerce,» released by the Environmental Investigation Agency, in conjunction with Humane Society International and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the website Yahoo! Japan facilitates the sale of meat and other products of endangered whale in Japan.

In subsequent years the annual number of endangered fin whales killed by Icelandic fleets for whale - meat exports to Japan had risen from seven to 148.

Ever since 1986, the international trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they bannEndangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they bannendangered species imaginable — at least they banned ivory).