Iceland has begun killing whales again. Already Icelandic whalers have set sail to begin the cruel slaughter of a I00 minke and 150 endangered fin whales this summer.
Please help us stop Iceland's Whale Killers! Thank you.
Under the Chairmanship of the United States, the IWC has entered in to a process of negotiations that could see an end to the whaling ban, not whaling. A compromise “package” has emerged that would remove the whaling ban and allow the last three whaling nations – Japan, Iceland and Norway, to resume commercial whaling.
The Faroe Islands, situated midway between Scotland and Iceland, is where whale hunts known as the ‘grind’ take place each year with entire pods of whales driven ashore and hacked to death in a bloody and cruel spectacle. The islanders kill hundreds of pilot whales
Reports from Tokyo suggest that Japan will allow the import of 65 tonnes of whale meat sent from Iceland last June. The meat, which was impounded by customes on arrival, consists of around 60 tonnes of fin whale meat from Iceland's whaling company Hvalur hf, and about five tonnes of minke meat exported by the Norwegian company Myklebust Trading.
Japan's whaling fleet has set sail once again for Antarctic waters to kill a huge number of whales for so-called 'research'. The fleet is expected to return in April of next year with a haul of 935 minke and 50 fin whales.
Iceland's whalers have belatedly been granted a quota of 40 minke whales to kill over the next few months but the government is clearly divided over the issue with Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir warning that resuming the whale hunt could damage Iceland's "long term interests".
If you care about whales please join us and help us to:
- Campaign to save and properly enforce the existing commercial whaling ban
- Campaign against Japanese 'scientific' whaling in the Pacific and Antarctic.
- Campaign against Norwegian whaling.
- Campaign against Icelandic whaling.
- Campaign to end the mass slaughter of dolphins and porpoises in Japan and elsewhere.
- Campaign for the protection of all whales and dolphins not covered by the ban on whaling.
- Campaign against plans to drill for oil & gas in the endangered western gray whales' feeding grounds.
- Promote further research into environmental threats to whales, dolphins and their habitats.
- Campaign against the Faroese pilot whale hunt.
- Campaign against the use of military sonar that kills whales.
- Promote whale watching as a commercial alternative to whaling.
Help us to help them by donating whatever you can afford today.
Thank you!