Sentences with phrase «international moratorium»

1971 The US Congress passes resolutions asking the Secretary of State to call for a 10 - year international moratorium on commercial whaling.

Japan has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and began what it called scientific whaling in 1987, a year after an international moratorium came into effect, despite growing global outrage, including from key allies such as the United States.

Japan joined an international moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, but continued with «scientific» whaling programs that it claimed were exempt from the agreement.

There has been an international moratorium on commercial whaling since 1985, but Japan relies on a clause that allows whales to be taken for research to catch hundreds of minke and smaller numbers of other species each year.

There has been an international moratorium on commercial whaling since 1985.

It also has ties to a controversial 2012 project in Canada that was accused of violating an international moratorium on commercial ocean fertilization.

Japan, which says whaling is a cherished cultural tradition, abandoned commercial whaling in accordance with an international moratorium in 1986, but began the next year to conduct what it calls scientific research whaling.

Japan has defied the international moratorium on commercial whaling for decades and Australia has had enough.

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.

LONDON — Ahead of the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission which begins next week in Slovenia, Humane Society International celebrates that an estimated 100,000 whales or more have been spared in the three decades since the international moratorium on commercial whaling.

Iceland plans to begin commercial whaling, defying the international moratorium that has been in place for 20 years.

Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society groups are calling it a «blatant violation» of two international moratoria and the news is likely to spark outrage at a United Nations environmental summit taking place in India this week.

But, unlike Japan who kills whales under the pretext of «scientific research» (a loophole in the international moratorium on whaling), Norway openly hunts for commercial purposes despite the illegality of it.

Japan abandoned commercial whaling in accordance with an international moratorium in 1986 but conducts what it calls «scientific research» whaling every year and is pushing for the resumption of commercial whaling.

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.