23 June 2010 (Agadir, Morocco) – The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW-www.ifaw.org) announced today that a controversial proposal to legalize whaling has failed at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Agadir, Morocco. “Under a cloud of corruption allegations the IWC is taking a safe course, opting for a cooling off [...]
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Crisis as whaling talks move behind closed doors
ANDREW DARBY IN AGADIR, MOROCCO June 21, 2010 High-level talks over a global whaling peace deal are to be sent behind closed doors, in an abrupt move said to show that a bid for compromise is close to failure. The decision to suspend the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting shortly after it opens later today [...]
Japanese pay for whale delegates
The Sunday Times Insight team Published: 20 June 2010 The chairman of this week’s international summit on whaling is being secretly funded by a Japanese company to stay in a luxury hotel. Anthony Liverpool will open the crucial International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Morocco tomorrow which could vote to lift a 24-year ban on [...]
Matando com Tecladas – Actualização sobre Portugal
Durante o mês de Fevereiro conduzi uma investigação sobre o comércio de vida selvagem através da Internet em Portugal, o chamado e-commerce. O tráfico internacional de animais selvagens é estimado em vários bilhões de Euros anualmente – um mercado negro que rivaliza a dimensão do comércio internacional de drogas e armas. Anualmente, milhares de elefantes [...]
Killing with Keystrokes – Portugal Update
During February I conducted an Investigation on the Wildlife trade in Portugal via Internet, the so called, e-commerce. International trafficking in wildlife is estimated to reach well into the billions of Euros annually – a black market rivaling the size of the international trade in illegal drugs and weapons. Every year thousands of elephants are [...]
TIA, bru!
0035 of the 04/04/200 I was sitting at the 25A seat of the STP Airways taking off to Sao Tome (ST). I don’t understand why they feed us 2 courses within 5 hours when we are flying over night and what I really wanted to do was SLEEP, NOT EAT! Landed ST at 0634 with [...]
IWC Intersessional – Day 3
Sea Shepherd (SS) dominated all the agenda of the 3rd and last morning of the IWC Intersessional meeting. Japan via the Institute of Cetacean research (ICR) (who conducts and runs the Japanese “junk-science” operations) presented a talk based on the “happenings” on the Southern Ocean during the last whaling season. All their presentation was focused [...]
IWC Intersessional – Day 2
Second day of proceedings started with the discussions of the Agenda Item 4: REPORT OF THE INTERSESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE GROUP (ICG) ON ISSUES RELATED TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (SC). A panoply of affairs related to the SC presented by Greg Donovan, Countries started asking the Commission to be able to provide reports of the SC well [...]
IWC Intersessional – Day 1
It was a night with little sleep (about 3 hours) before I drove into Lisbon and my friend Susana took me to the airport. With a stopover in Madrid I got into Rome Fiumicino Airport around 19:00. Then took a taxi to the Hotel Santa Prisca where I’m staying. Dropped things there and went out [...]
Chile & IWC 2009
Frenetic, stressful, inflammatory debates and very unproductive, the old same! This was the ambience surrounding the 60th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission, (IWC) hosted by the Government of Chile and held at Santiago. After several decades of little change in terms of making the IWC a body that regulates properly whaling, it is sliding [...]