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Whale experts
Resources to learn more about whales:
- Amber Valletta partners with IFAW to help California whales
- The dangers of entanglements
- Reducing accidental injuries to whales
- In California, celebrities and conservationists gather at the BLUE Ocean Film Festival
- Understanding the sources of ocean noise pollution
- The effects of climate change on whales
More about whales, whaling and IFAW:
- Why commercial whaling is cruel
- International Whaling Commission (IWC) role in regulating whaling and protecting whales
- Read the IFAW report on vote buying at the IWC
- Find out the truth about scientific whaling
- Do whales eat fish and deplete fish stocks?
- Take a look at our "Tails for Whales" photo campaign
Whales news
I arrived in Reykjavik at midnight on Sunday.
I was tired but the sun wasn’t – it was still well above the Read more »
Eleven days in and we’ve reached the southern coast of Portugal, where we’ve finally been able to shed the Read more »
After weeks of increasingly frenzied activity, boat maintenance, construction and testing of hydrophones, R/V Song of the Read more »
It’s been interesting times for those of us keeping an eye on the whaling situation in Iceland.
Two species of Read more »
In this brief video, produced by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, an overview of the week's work along with Watch Video »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is urging Japan to abandon its dying whaling industry as the fleet returns to port with its lowest Antarctic catch since ‘scientific whaling’ began in 1987.
In December last year, the Read more »
(Brussels, Belgium - October 25th 2012) – The European Parliament today called for an end to Japanese so-called ‘scientific whaling’ as part of a resolution on EU-Japan trade talks. The adopted text notes the serious divergences bet Read more »
European Parliamentarians have taken a strong stand against whaling in the context of EU – Japan trade negotiations. The adopted amendments tabled by MEP David Martin (S&D) note the serious divergences between the EU and Japan on issu Read more »
On the eve of the opening of the world’s largest and most important conservation meeting, the EU must urge host country Korea to publicly reject its plans to slaughter whales.
The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) World Cons Read more »
At the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Panama today, the Republic of Korea unexpectedly signalled its intention to begin so-called scientific whaling.
The announcement, at the 64th meeting of the IWC in Panama City, ca Read more »
On the eve of the annual meeting of the conservation body set up to protect whales – the International Whaling Commission (IWC) – there are fears this year’s meeting could be over before it begins.
As delegates from around the world Read more »
The IFAW research vessel Song of the Whale (SOTW) left the Azores at the beginning of May bound for the north-east coast of t Read more »
It’s been more than 40 years since a small group of concerned citizens banded together to stop Canada’s cruel com Read more »
This report summarises research activities carried out by the Song of the Whale (SOTW) team in Iceland in August and Septembe Read more »
There are three remaining countries in the world that engage in the cruel practice of commercial whaling and two of them are Read more »
European Parliamentarians have taken a strong stand against whaling in the context of EU – Japan trade negotiations. Read more »
This report summarises research activities carried out by the Song of the Whale (SOTW) team in Iceland in August and Read more »
As I travelled to Iceland on Sunday evening I was thinking about how all the pieces of our anti-whaling campaign in the Read more »
