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Whaling

August 2024

  • Fin whale

    Australian government ‘deeply disappointed’ by Japan’s decision to expand commercial whaling target list

    Japanese government confirms it will allow whalers to catch and kill up to 59 fin whales, a species conservationists consider vulnerable

July 2024

  • Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration in Germany, on May 23, 2012

    Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years’ prison in Japan if convicted

    Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass
  • An elderly man with white hair and a beard being led in handcuffs by an official

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’

    Allies of the 73-year-old anti-whaling activist Paul Watson have said that prison time would amount to a ‘life sentence’
  • Paul Watson, the founder of Sea Shepherd

    Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland

    The co-founder of Greenpeace will be taken to court where a decision will be made about his extradition to Japan, police say

June 2024

  • A dead whale about 20 metres long lies on its side on a tarmacked surface, which is covered in water and blood.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Iceland grants country’s last whaling company licence to hunt 128 fin whales

    Conservationists criticise ‘disappointing’ and ‘dangerous’ move to allow harpooning of fin whales after curbs last year

October 2023

  • Kristján Loftsson

    Today in Focus
    The last whale hunter in Iceland

    Kristján Loftsson has stubbornly refused to bow to public opinion or an overwhelming international consensus against whale hunting. But with a full ban coming in Iceland, has he killed his last whale?

June 2023

  • Roger Payne in Peninsula Valdes, Argentina; he led 100 oceanic expeditions over a long career as a whale scientist.

    Roger Payne obituary

    Biologist and environmentalist whose research into whale song brought about a new awareness of the animals’ plight

February 2023

  • Dead minke whale tails tied to a Japanese whaling ship

    Japan’s new whaling ‘mother ship’ being built to travel as far as Antarctica

    Company says vessel’s construction will help ‘pass on our whaling culture to the next generation’

July 2022

  • Huge group of southern fin whales captured in Antarctic feeding frenzy – video

    Scores of southern fin whales have been filmed feasting together for the first time since 1970s whaling ban

June 2022

  • A southern right whale breaches out of the water with the sandy shoreline in the background

    Researchers use whale photo archive to help protect important WA calving site

    Southern right whale populations were severely depleted by whaling but may be bouncing back in Geographe Bay

March 2022

  • This image taken by NOAA Ocean Exploration in shows what researchers believe to be the wreck of the Industry.

    Discovery of 1800s whaling ship expected to offer insight into Black and Indigenous crew

    The brig – whose crew was rescued – is linked to prominent Black mariner who hired nearly all Black and Native sailors for his ships

February 2022

  • A whale awaiting slaughter at a whaling station in Hvalfjörður, Iceland in 2018.

    Iceland to end whaling in 2024 as demand dwindles

    Japan’s return to commercial whaling in 2019 has left few buyers for Iceland’s meat

December 2021

  • Fisheries workers butcher a Baird's beaked whale

    Japan’s whaling town struggles to keep 400 years of tradition alive

    The resumption of killing whales for profit for the first time in over 30 years has offered little cause for celebration

September 2021

  • In a picture from 17 May 1999, two Makah whalers stand atop the carcass of a dead gray whale at Neah Bay, Washington.

    Judge recommends tribe be allowed to hunt gray whales off Washington state

  • Philip Hoare

    Horror at the Faroes dolphin slaughter is only human – but it risks hypocrisy

    Philip Hoare

March 2021

  • When facing a human attack, sperm whales abandoned the defensive circles used against orca and swam upwind instead.

    Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information

    Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour

December 2020

  • Part of the album cover of Songs of the Humpback Whale, which remains the only multiplatinum-selling album of animal sounds.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Calls from the deep: do we need to Save the Whales all over again?

    Fifty years ago, a hit album proved whales “sing” – and led to one of the great environmental success stories. But soon it could all be for nothing

July 2019

  • Sperm whale being hunted by whalers, historical woodcut, circa 1870 (photo by: bildagentur-online/uig via getty images)

    Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times

    The book features gay marriage, hits out at slavery and imperialism and predicts the climate crisis – 200 years after the birth of its author, Herman Melville, it has never been more important
  • Nisshin rams Bob, steam from water cannon. A still from the Sea Shepherd film Defend, Conserve, Protect.

    Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson: 'I call what we do aggressive non-violence'

    New documentary Defend, Conserve, Protect follows the conservation organisation’s anti-whaling missions and plays out like a war movie on the high seas
  • A minke whale is lifted off a boat after it was caught on the first day after the resumption of commercial whaling

    Japan resumes commercial whaling for first time in 30 years

    Hunters set sail after country’s withdrawal from International Whaling Commission
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