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Controversial whaling proposal fails at global meeting
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 [...]
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 [...]
The End of Whaling in the Southern Ocean (?!?!)
I recall the message from the pro surfer and environmentalist warrior Dave Rastovich, just days before the 61st International Whaling Commission meeting started in Madeira, Portugal. He ended it by saying that “Honour and respect are nowhere to be found within the modern whaling crime”. This sentence to me marked that meeting and period, when [...]
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 [...]
The Fixer
During my short career I’ve been called many things, but the name that stands out the most is beyond any doubt the one Alex Garcia from Varda Group gave me on the Secretariat description for the PEW Whales Commission meeting held in Lisbon last week, THE FIXER. It was also the first time I have [...]