They presented the government of the Faroe Island with a petition by their organizations named Whale and Dolphin-Forum (WDSF} and “ProWal” with almost 60.000 signatures to stop the slaughter.

Crowds of islanders, including youngsters, gathered to watch the slaughter, known as “the grind”. Anti-whaling activist Peter Hammarstedt, 28, exposed last week's killings by posing as a film ...

The little coastal town of Mendocino, California, has long been a hotbed of progressive activism. In 1976, the cause was ...

I had come to understand the blue whale slaughter intellectually—that in just four decades we nearly extinguished the largest creature ever to live—and now I grasped it viscerally. Here was ...

"Demand for whale meat in Japan has plummeted," he said. "It is completely incomprehensible why the Japanese government is including new species to slaughter. "It is clear that whales are ...

Australian authorities are to euthanise scores of false killer whales left suffering on a beach after a mass stranding in remote Tasmania. Marine experts said today that they have given up hope of ...

I was delighted to report the victory in this very column when the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the Japanese government should immediately stop the slaughter of ...

On July 1, Japan announced commercial whaling quotas authorizing the annual slaughter of 25 sei whales, 187 Bryde’s whales, and 171 minke whales. The IWC’s underlying treaty, the International ...

There are also concerns that Japan may try to recruit other pro-whaling nations to leave the IWC and join a new Pacific whalers’ club to herald in a new era of the slaughter of cetaceans for profit.