October 14, 2022 4 Comments

https://blog.humanesociety.org/2022/10/heres-why-the-global-ban-on-whaling-is-as-essential-as-ever.html

A whaling fleet from Japan killing Antarctic minke whales in the Southern Ocean.Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Alamy Stock photo

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More than forty years since the global moratorium on commercial whaling was adopted, it is justly regarded asone of the most important conservation and animal protection measures of all time. By most estimates it’s saved hundreds of thousands ofwhalesfrom the harpoon and prevented the extinction of several species and population groups.

We’ve never let up in our efforts to defend the moratorium. It’s come under attack again and again at the International Whaling Commission and in other contexts. And this week and next, we’re defending it again at the 68^thmeeting of the IWC in Portorož, Slovenia, where the determined campaign of Japan and its allies at the IWC to subvert the moratorium and other conservation measures continues. Japan is one…