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Whales relieved. Pandora’s box to resume commercial whaling remains closed.

by OceanCare | 14/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 14th September 2018. The last day of the Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) saw the long-awaited discussion about the package proposal submitted by the government of Japan called “A way forward”. The controversial proposal is...

International Whaling Commission: welcome to the future!

by OceanCare | 13/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 13th September 2018. The member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) have just adopted the so-called “Florianópolis Declaration” by a simple majority and have thus committed themselves to a historical reorientation of...

Listen! Whaling Commission in agreement over noise pollution as a threat

by OceanCare | 12/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 12th September 2018. On the third day of the Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the Member States adopted a Resolution that addresses the threat posed to cetaceans by anthropogenic noise by consensus. It positions the IWC as...

Vote to establish South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary fails

by OceanCare | 11/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 11th September 2018. The proposal by Argentina, Brazil, Gabon, South Africa and Uruguay to declare the South Atlantic a Whale Sanctuary has again not received the necessary support of a three-quarter majority at the second day of the...

Whale of a fight in Brazil: Will Whaling Commission harpoon whaling ban?

by OceanCare | 05/09/2018 | Media Release

67th Conference of the IWC to start September 10th in Florianópolis, Brazil Florianópolis, Brazil, 5th September 2018. “Will the International Whaling Commission become grown-up”, “will the status quo be cemented” or will the body make “two steps back to the future?”...

The United Nations take a look beyond the surface of the world’s Oceans

by OceanCare | 14/06/2018 | Media Release

New York/Wädenswil, 14th June 2018: Honking car drivers on 5th Avenue, rock concerts or cheering audiences in Madison Square Garden, after-work parties and dance-clubs; these might be images people think of when being told that increasing noise levels and disturbance...

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