Despite a ban on commercial whaling, whales are still hunted. A few countries still kill thousands of the animals each year and want to re-open the seas to full-scale commercial whaling. HSI is calling for a global whale sanctuary to end all whaling for commercial purposes forever.
Commercial whaling is out of step with the modern world. We don’t need whale products, including meat: increasingly, because of the toxins they ingest as a result of their polluted habitat, serious health concerns are associated with eating whale meat.
There is no humane way to kill whales, and they already face other threats such as entanglement in debris and fishing gear, pollution and climate change.
Join our campaign and let governments and corporations know you want the slaughter to end.
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Majestic and awe-inspiring. Karten Leuth/istock
IWC 63: July 11-14, 2011
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was intended to conserve whale stocks and regulate commercial and aboriginal whaling, but most member nations believe it has evolved into a conservation treaty. HSI attended the 63rd annual meeting to speak out for whales.
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September 19, 2011
Obama Warns Iceland: Stop Whaling
President Obama stopped short of applying trade measures to Iceland for commercial whaling in defiance of the IWC ban on such activity.
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September 8, 2011
An Uncertain Future for Whaling
Japanese whaling activity in the Southern Ocean faced an uncertain future as new problems weighed on the government.
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July 20, 2011
U.S. Declaration Against Icelandic Whaling Welcomed
Conservation and animal welfare groups commended Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and the U.S. Department of Commerce for the announcement that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the International Whaling Commission by hunting whales in defiance of the IWC’s global ban on commercial whaling.
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July 15, 2011
IWC 63: Outcomes and Setbacks
Wins and losses for whales at the 2011 meeting of the International Whaling Commission.