Sentences with phrase «moratorium on commercial whaling»

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.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) released a controversial proposal on 22 April which would allow limited hunting in the hope of achieving an enforceable, consensus agreement that would include Japan, Iceland and Norway, which have caught more than 33,000 whales since the 1986 IWC moratorium on commercial whaling.

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

Today, Japan sustained its biggest strike since the 1982 global moratorium on commercial whaling with a ruling by the International Court of Justice that its current southern ocean whaling activities are in breach of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling.

The new estimates suggest that proposals to lift the International Whaling Commission's 18 - year - old moratorium on commercial whaling are based on a faulty assessment of what constitutes natural population sizes.

The hunts have gone on for years in the name of scientific research, using a loophole in the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling under the International Whaling Commission.

The disclosure in California comes as the International Whaling Commission considers a compromise that would end the longstanding moratorium on commercial whaling in return for Japan and other whaling countries reducing * their independent whale hunts.

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.

The «Save the Whales» movement, which started in the early 1970's, led to an international public outcry and an eventual moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, one that's still in place to this day.

A new study was released at the meeting, sponsored in part by The HSUS, that refutes Japan's argument that whales compete with human beings for fish, a misconception the island nation has used to call for lifting the worldwide moratorium on 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.

HSI will oppose Japan's proposal for small - vessel coastal whaling, which HSI considers a violation of the 30 - year - old moratorium on commercial whaling, and argue for the highest standard of scientific scrutiny in regard to Denmark's application for an increased whaling quota for Greenland and other aboriginal subsistence whaling proposals being considered at this year's meeting.

On Earth Day, the leadership of the International Whaling Commission issued a long - discussed proposal for a «peace plan» aimed at reining in expanding whale hunts by Japan, Norway and Iceland that have, in various ways, skirted the longstanding moratorium on commercial whaling.

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

The International Whaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, but it allowed the killing of some whales for scientific research.

In 1982, the International Whaling Commission adopted a moratorium on commercial whaling, allowing the taking and killing of whales for research purposes only.

Once again there were no major shifts in policy — the moratorium on commercial whaling stays in force and Japan continues its «scientific» whaling (see This Week).

Although IWC enacted a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, one provision in its conventions allows member nations to kill whales for research.

In response to declining numbers of certain whale species, IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.

Critics have long claimed that Japan's research program is a fig leaf to sidestep the IWC's 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling.

Once hunted indiscriminately around the world, many whale species are in much better shape, due to a moratorium on commercial whaling set in 1986 by nations within the International Whaling Commission, Japan included.

It appears that, for now at least, Watson is able to shift from his longstanding prime target — the Japanese fleet harpooning in Antarctic waters under a program described as research but widely criticized as an end run around a moratorium on commercial whaling.

It is time for the Contracting Governments to the IWC and non-member governments worldwide to take strong diplomatic and economic action to bring an end to what is clearly the most flagrant abuse of the moratorium on commercial whaling since its inception.

Groups fighting whaling immediately disputed this, saying that even with its big loopholes, the moratorium on commercial whaling, in place since 1986, remains vital.

There is currently a global moratorium on commercial whaling, and a ban on international trade in fin whale meat.

Environmentalists fight to sustain a moratorium on commercial whaling, but usually — as I wrote a few years ago — use arguments about rarity, rather than right and wrong, about whether they should be hunted.

Since the global moratorium on commercial whaling was introduced in 1986, Japan has defied the ban and killed more than 15,000 whales in the name of scientific research.

But because the International Whaling Commission has imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling since 1986, Japan has continued whaling under a self - allocated quota for «scientific whaling.»

In a real sense, the IWC embraced its future 30 years ago, in 1986, when it adopted the moratorium on commercial whaling, which history has judged as a bold and necessary, if difficult advance.

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.

1972 The US delegation to the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment proposes a moratorium on commercial whaling, based on the adoption of the 1971 resolutions; it passes with no opposition.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) passed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, but lacked the power to enforce its own decision.

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

Endorsed 2010 International Whaling Commission proposed modification of 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling

In the 1980s WWF, in conjunction with Save the Whales, successfully campaigned for a moratorium on commercial whaling.

The global moratorium on commercial whaling that was passed in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission led to Sea Shepherd sinking two illegal whaling ships in Iceland in 1986 and two again, in Norway between 1992 and 1994.

Since 1987 Japan has defied the moratorium on commercial whaling, hunting whales in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary and Australian waters.

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.

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 Species.

The moratorium on commercial whaling has been in effect for nearly a quarter century.

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.

The IWC, charged with the global conservation and sustainable use of whales, introduced a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986 as a temporary strategy to conserve depleted whale stocks while a more long - term plan was developed to manage whales.

In 2010, countries including the United States were considering a deal to lift the decades - old moratorium on commercial whaling.