Four decades of protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises under the International Whaling Commission. A personal reflection ...

Major Icelandic whaling company Hvalur has just announced that it will not hunt fin whales this summer, Mongabay reported. This announcement comes after a controversial decision by the government of ...

A proposal announced today by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) would, if adopted, for the first time in almost 25 years, endorse the killing of whales in their most precious feeding grounds, ...

Matt J. Thorstensen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Japans determined bid to return to commercial whale hunting was blocked by anti-whaling nations in a tense vote Friday at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Brazil. Anti-whaling nations ...

Japan’s state-owned whaling company, Kyodo Senpaku, has killed a fin whale off Iwate Prefecture. The 19.6 meter, 55-tonne male was caught using Kyodo Senpaku’s new whaling ship, the 9,300-ton Kangei ...

The last time we looked at this promise, we rated it Stalled, because talks at the International Whaling Commission had broken down in 2010. Recent events, however, show a more positive outlook on ...

Herman Melville-s Moby Dick may have come from the heart of darkness, but today, the mystical mammals are seen as intelligent creatures--except in Japan and Norway, and among American Eskimos, where ...