Blogposts tagged 'Cetaceans'

In Chile, the world's scientists are already meeting in advance of the 60th International Whaling Commission (IWC), which will be held there in late June. At this time of year, the eyes of the world turn to the deadlocked struggle between pro-conservation and pro-whaling countries as they clash over the future of whaling at the IWC meetings. And recent events have not been going well for the whalers - in recent weeks we have seen just how desperate the pro-whaling nations are to play down not only the recent scandal of stolen whale meat in Japan, but also the saga of exporting whale meat from Iceland and Norway. Both stories highlight the extent to which the whalers are routinely flouting not only international opinion but also the global ban on commercial whaling and the trading of whale meat.

MY Esperanza arrives in Sydney, Australia

We're taking our anti-whaling campaign to Japan, where the government plans to increase its whaling activities despite opposition from two-thirds of the Japanese public.

We've just delivered dead dolphins bearing the scars of a final struggle in fishing nets simultaneously to French government offices in London and Paris.

Greenpeace is calling for a total ban on pair trawling, which kills thousands of dolphins in the English Channel every year. France has the largest bass pair trawling fleet in Europe but has failed to take action to stop these needless deaths.

Our ship, the MY Esperanza, has just set sail from Falmouth to investigate dolphin deaths in the English Channel.

Every year hundreds of dolphins are killed by pair trawlers and other destructive fishing - their corpses are washing up on beaches in south west England right now.