Science news articles about 'international whaling commission'

The International Whaling Commission agreed Tuesday to put off votes on a Japanese bid to resume commercial whaling and an environmentalist initiative to create a whale reserve in the South Atlantic.

The first vote at this year's International Whaling Commission meeting denies Greenland's request to hunt humpbacks.

Greenland is trying to withdraw its whale hunt from International Whaling Commission jurisdiction.

... killing more whales than we know about." Parsons is a national delegate for the International Whaling Commission's scientific and conservation committees, and on the board of directors of the marine ...

The International Whaling Commission will next month start negotiations in a bid to find a compromise over restrictions on whale hunting, a newspaper said Saturday.

... was scrapped due to the losses it was causing the country's whalers. Japan and Norway, in defiance of the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on commercial whaling, kill up to 2,000 whales ...

... of California-Irvine presented their findings at the recent scientific meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portugal. Their study found that nearly 46 percent of the minke whale ...

... save their larger cousins. "Although great whale species of the world are by no means secure ... nations taking part in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting this week object to discussing ...

The International Whaling Commission adopted a major climate change resolution on the last day of its 61st meeting, although it failed to take decisions on contentious ...

... ), and X (Northern Indian Ocean), based on information amassed and designated by the International Whaling Commission, including data from 19th and 20th Centuries commercial whaling. The scientists ...