Tag: whaling
“My imprisonment helped draw attention to illegal whaling”
After five months in detention in Greenland, Paul Watson was released on Tuesday, December 17 after Denmark rejected Japan’s extradition request. The American-Canadian environmental activist, 74, was arrested in Nuuk…
Denmark won’t extradite anti-whaling activist to Japan, gets free | News in brief
Environmental activist Paul Watson managed to be arrested in Greenland for about half a year. Denmark will not extradite the US-Canadian environmental activist Paul Watson To Japan, said Watson’s lawyer…
Iceland allows whaling until 2029
They will be able to continue their activities until 2029. Icelandic whalers have obtained agreement to continue this controversial fishing for another five years. A decision that is misunderstood locally,…
DRC: sinking of a whaling boat with 300 passengers on board in the province of Maï-Ndombe
The shipwreck occurred on the night of Saturday to Sunday, August 18, on the Lukenie River, in the territory of Kutu, province of Mai-Ndombe (southwest). A whaling boat heading towards…
“Kangei Maru”, the new Japanese behemoth dedicated to whaling
Along with Norway and Iceland, Japan is one of the last countries in the world to continue whaling. And to give ourselves the means to capture more. His new flagship…
After the deadly shipwreck of a whaling boat, the Central African Republic mourns
Three days after the sinking of a whaling boat on the M’poko River, the toll continues to rise. This Monday, civil protection announced a new provisional death toll of at…
after the deadly shipwreck of the whaling boat, residents wonder
In the Central African Republic, three days after the sinking of a whaling boat on the M’poko river southwest of Bangui, volunteer rescuers continue to fish out dead bodies. According…
a tragic shipwreck of a whaling boat on the M’poko river causes dozens of deaths
In the Central African Republic, at least sixty people died on Friday April 19 in the sinking of a whaling boat in Bangui. The tragedy occurred on the M’poko river,…
Iceland freezes whaling until at least the end of August
The hunt may end completely, as the country’s only whaling company had already announced that it would stop hunting after this season. Iceland freezes whaling for animal protection reasons at…
Iceland plans to stop whaling from 2024
Iceland will soon no longer be one of the few countries to still practice the controversial whaling. Within two years, the harpoons should be put away for good and the…