This morning (February 20, 2013) the news from Down Under reported that Japan has halted its whale hunt in the Great Southern Ocean Sanctuary. Amidst ...

After a scare, I am happy to say that the Koreans have seen the error of their ways and have decided to not begin "scientific" whaling. So why can't we reach Japan?

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — The International Whaling Commission ended its annual meeting on Friday amid dissatisfaction from a variety of members, i...

PANAMA CITY — The International Whaling Commission has rejected a request from Denmark for a whaling quota for indigenous groups in Greenland. ...

An investigation in Greenland by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) has shown whale meat from aboriginal hunting is being made availabl...

Want to just solve the problem? They estimate that whaling makes about $31 million in profits. Anti-whaling spends $25 million. If the anti-whaling money directly paid whalers not to hunt -- problem solved.

By Jennifer Jacquet (Click here for original article.) "Research on chimpanzees is contentious, expensive, and of increasingly limited necessity,"...

ST. HELIER, Jersey — A British proposal to crack down on alleged vote-buying was among the main items on the agenda as the International Whaling...

The Obama administration deserves credit and our strong support for demanding an end to Iceland's brutal, outdated and illegal slaughter of the world's most magnificent animals.

The humpback population has now recovered to the extent that explorer whales have made their way back to ancient feeding grounds. This should be cause for joyous celebration -- not a dreadful slaughter.

Last week, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society captured shocking and highly disturbing images of 236 pilot whales brutally slaughtered in the town of Klaksvik in the Danish Faroe Islands.

The closing line of Martin Fackler's weekend article about fading passion for whaling in a Japanese whaling town is stark and telling: "Japan doesn...

While the nations that gathered at the International Whaling Commission failed to come to an agreement that could help save whales, the President and his team stood their ground in the end.

The fight to ban commercial whaling has had mixed outcomes through the years. There's a ban on commercial whaling, but Japan, Norway, and Iceland have...

Nations discussing a plan to allow the first legal commercial whaling in almost 25 years, in an attempt to curb the number of whales hunted by a handf...

TOKYO -- The International Whaling Commission has proposed allowing whales to be hunted under strict quotas, bringing the world a step closer to the f...

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If you care about animals, you should care about the environment. To live and be healthy, animals need a healthy environment. And that's one major rea...

If anyone has ever traveled to San Ignacio Lagoon, to have the experience of making personal contact with a gray whale, one would understand that these magnificent creatures do not deserve to be mercilessly hunted.

Even though young people in Japan are hardly interested in eating whale meat, the government is still committed to killing whales, and seeks each year greater validation from the IWC for its currently unauthorized whale-killing gambits.

WASHINGTON -- The United States is leading an effort by a handful of antiwhaling nations to broker an agreement that would limit and ultimately end wh...

Is it possible that the Obama Administration will capitulate to a proposed plan that permits Japan, Norway, and Iceland to resume commercial whaling? As unlikely as it sounds, the answer is yes.