As delegations from 90 countries gather on the island of Madiera, Portugal for the 61st annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), decades of international whale conservation efforts and scientific integrity are at risk.

A closed-door "small working group" process has produced proposals that would ignore sound science and IWC procedures, undo the moratorium on commercial whaling, legitimize the sham of Japan's "scientific" whaling and award the Government of Japan a new coastal whaling quota.

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New Report Documents Massive Growth in Whale Watching

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.

Pierce Brosnan speaks up for whales in Washington:

New Whale Watching Report:

IFAW has released a new report that documents the continuing dramatic growth and expanding economic contribution of whale watching worldwide. Download it now.