Sunday Times investigation over Japan bribery over Whaling! A MUST SEE!
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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 [...]
And if the crisis would solve the whaling issue?
The other day I was talking to my dear friend and Guru, Sidney Holt, about this world economical crisis and if it would have any impact on the whaling scene as we know it. It is almost certain that good faith, politics, conservation policies, and lobbying alone will not turn the tide; the economical aspect [...]
Japan Give Portugal a Chance!
Yesterday (9th May) we were at the Japanese Embassy demanding the withdrawal of the proposal it has to host the 2009 IWC meeting. Things looked a bit grim to start with; I locked myself out of my car, so I had to highjack my own vehicle, got lost in Lisbon, got stuck in the traffic [...]
Valentine’s day at the Japanese Embassy
Around 3pm we started gathering at the entrance of the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, after passing it a couple of times without noticing it was it. 14 of February is the day the world celebrates as the day of love, we had flowers and a message to the Japanese Ambassador in Lisbon, but this action [...]
IWC Meeting Caribbean + Smack Down
As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in St Kitts concluded its proceedings today, a peaceful protest carried out by Greenpeace was abruptly broken up by the authorities, who arrested ten activists and ship crew from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise. The protestors were attempting to highlight the number of whales killed during the last [...]
IWC – International Whaling Commission
The environmental movement is facing one of its biggest-ever reverses, over one of its most cherished causes: Save The Whale. The leading pro-whaling nation, Japan, with a remarkable diplomatic “coup d’état” is self-assured to clutch control of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), formed in order to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and [...]