Whales Alive attends IWC meeting in Morocco

Whaling deal is dead

IWC to retain moratorium on commercial whaling

 Media Release, June 24, 2010

  The moratorium on commercial whaling remains in place today as the member countries of the IWC rejected a compromise whaling proposal that would have allowed a return to commercial whaling.

“This deal was nothing but a 10 year free for all for the whalers.  It is now dead,” said Mick McIntyre, director of the Sydney based conservation group Whales Alive.

GOVERNMENT INITIATES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST JAPANESE WHALING

Australia will initiate legal action in the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Japanese ‘scientific’ whaling in the Southern Ocean.