The global ban on whaling has stood for almost 30 years, but its days are numbered. When the International Whaling Commission meets on 21 June it will vote to harpoon the whaling ban and legalise commercial whaling for the first time since 1982. In a giant leap backwards for global marine conservation, the 88 nations of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) look set to agree a plan that would:
- end the global ban on commercial whaling
- grant new whaling rights to Japan, Iceland and Norway to kill thousands of whales
sanction whaling in whale sanctuaries - areas like the vast and wild Southern Ocean that IWC itself has supposedly set aside from all whale hunting, and
- allow hunting of endangered whale species.
In Japan, Iceland and Norway the whaling industry is heavily subsidised while demand for its product - whale meat - is declining. Perhaps most tragically, this deal would breathe life into the dying whaling industry, resuscitating an outdated, unnecessary and barbaric practice.
Australian Marine Conservation Soceity is fighting to stop this from happening, but really need your help.
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