The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established in 1946 to prevent the collapse of several species that had been hunted to near extinction over the preceding centuries. In 1986, after long ...

Major Icelandic whaling company Hvalur has just announced that it will not hunt fin whales this summer, Mongabay reported. This announcement comes after a controversial decision by the government of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. Hvalur hf. exports almost ...

These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

To mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, EIA and a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations have joined ...

Anti-whaling activists are targeting UK holidaymakers to Iceland, who they say are responsible for an industry that kills hundreds of the animals each year. British guests in Icelandic hotels and ...

Two environmental activists are facing potential prison sentences after climbing onto the mast of a whaling boat and remaining there for 33 hours during a protest in Iceland. Elyssia Phillips, a ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Whales form an essential part of the ocean ecosystem, migrating thousands of kilometers annually between feeding and breeding ...