IWC to Meet Behind Closed Doors...Again.

On December 8th and 9th, the IWC will hold a second closed-door meeting to consider lifting the ban on commercial whaling around the world.

Download IFAW’s Briefing on the 33 Items under discussion at this meeting

We Cannot Stand By and Let This Happen

The moratorium on commercial whaling has been in existence since 1986. And there is strong scientific evidence that whale populations are just now starting to recover after decades of merciless hunting and exploitation.

IFAW is vehemently opposed to the lifting of the ’86 moratorium and now more than ever, whales need your support.

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Protected Humpbacks Recovering, But Whales Worldwide Face Growing Threats

From the Stopwhaling.org Blog

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Put an End to the Cruelty of Whaling

Our planet?s great whales are battling for their lives.

Whales face more threats today than at any other time in history. Commercial whaling has been banned for more than two decades ? yet Japan, Iceland and Norway continue firing harpoons into these gentle creatures for products that nobody needs. More than 30,000 whales have been killed for commercial purposes since the ban on whaling in 1986. And now the magnificent humpback whale is being targeted for whaling by the government of Japan.