LONDON -- Japan and its pro-whaling allies squared off against opponents yesterday at the opening of a weeklong International Whaling Commission meeting, where a fight over the 15-year ban on ...

Whaling ships set sail on Monday from Japan as the country resumed commercial hunts for the first time in decades after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission. Japan whaling ships set ...

SORRENTO, Italy -- Japan lost a key vote in its bid to have an 18-year ban on commercial whaling overturned when its motion to hold secret balloting at this week's International Whaling Commission ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The future of whaling in Japan was thrown into doubt after the International Court of Justice ruled Monday that the nation’s annual hunt in the Antarctic was not really ...

NUUK, Greenland, July 23, 2024 (ENS) – On the morning of Sunday, July 21, Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of marine conservation organization Greenpeace, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation ...

A four-decade-old moratorium on commercial whaling will remain in force after a proposal to overturn it was withdrawn Thursday at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Peru’s ...

(AP) A support vessel for the Japanese whaling fleet is sailing in Australian waters in pursuit of anti-whaling activists, Australia said after protesting to the Tokyo government. Environment Minister ...

In 2023, Iceland’s government lifted a ban on commercial whaling. The temporary ban had been implemented in June due to ...

TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - Japan's main whaling ship was set to limp into port on Friday with a haul of 508 whales after cutting short its Antarctic whaling hunt due to a fire last month that killed ...

AMSTERDAM, July 20 (Reuters) - Final written arguments in Australia's complaint against Japan over whaling in the Southern Ocean will be due in March 2012, the world court said on Tuesday, ensuring ...

They’re baaaaaaaccck. Whale hunting season kicked off in Japan last week as three ships set off with a security vessel on their annual pilgrimage to cull hundreds of minke and fin whales in Antarctic ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to promote its products amid protests from conservationists, has found a new way to cultivate clientele and bolster sales ...