Sentences with phrase «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.

From the outset of their large - scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death...

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.

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.

On the eve of the 64th International Whaling Commission annual meeting, Humane Society International has delivered a petition concerning Denmark's position on commercial whaling to the Danish government.

Nineteen conservation and animal welfare groups, representing tens of millions of U.S. citizens, today called on the United States Secretaries of Commerce and Interior to impose trade sanctions against Iceland for its escalating defiance of international conservation agreements on commercial whaling.

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).

Once abundant, blue whales were hunted to just 500 individuals before a ban on commercial whaling came in during the 1960s.

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.

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 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.

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

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 ban on commercial whaling also does not affect aboriginal subsistence whaling, which is permitted by Denmark, the Russian Federation, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the United States.

The IWC meeting in Morocco may have seen the failure of plans to compromise on commercial whaling, to bring Japan and other international law objectors back into the fold, but there is some more interesting news coming from Agadir: More whales are being killed by pollution, getting caught in nets and other threats than by commercial whaling; and, Russian oil exploration in the Pacific is threatening critically endangered grey whales.

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.

Japan has been violating the ban on commercial whaling since it first went into effect in 1986 — by using a loophole in the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling that allows countries to kill whales for scientific purposes.

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

HSI delivered a the signatures of more than 18,000 concerned EU citizens along with a petition concerning Denmark's position on commercial whaling to the Danish government.

From the outset of their large - scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death of nearly half a million great whales.

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.

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.

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

A controversial proposal to end the 24 - year - old ban on commercial whaling was shelved today at the International Whaling Commission's (IWC's) annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco.

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.

US law allows the restriction of imports from countries that «undermine» international conservation agreements such as the ban on commercial whaling.

Japan's whaling proponents say there are no good scientific reasons for a blanket ban on commercial whaling.

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.

While this activity involved witnessing whale hunting, it generated a huge amount of both data and specimens, and helped contribute to the eventual ban on commercial whaling.

An international ban on commercial whaling was instituted in 1964 and the whale population has since rebounded.

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.

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.

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.

In 2010, HSI and its allies successfully fought off a proposal by a number of member governments — including the United States — to relax the quarter - century - old worldwide ban on commercial whaling.

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.»

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.

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.

Earlier this year at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama, South Korea had announced plans to kill whales under the guise of science, by exploiting a loophole to the ban on commercial 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.