At the 69 th IWC meeting in 2024, for example, countries voting against both a Resolution on commercial whaling and a ...

The discovery led to an investigation by Norway's domestic intelligence agency, which later said that the whale was likely to have been trained by the Russian army as he seemed accustomed to humans.

Iceland joined CITES in 2000 but joined Japan and Norway in entering a reservation exempting it from the ban on commercial trade in whale products. It resumed large-scale trade in whale products to ...

A large fin whale washed up on the west Waterford coast is believed to have died at sea up to a week ago. The remains of the badly decomposed mammal are thought to have come ashore in the ...

Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries, but key technological advances, such as the exploding harpoon cannon, developed by its whalers in the 19 th century, enabled the expansion of ...

A beluga whale nicknamed Hvaldimir, after his strange harness prompted suspicions he was a Russian spy, has been found dead in the southwest of Norway. The whale’s carcass was discovered ...

She heard that biologists were starting orca safaris in Norway and volunteered to work ... the humpbacks wreck it. The fin whales are taking advantage too.” The orcas didn’t seem to mind.

Gliding stealthily through Norway’s frigid Arctic waters ... with one of the most fearsome sea predators — killer whales. A fin emerges from the gloomy depths off the island of Spildra ...

Fin whales aren’t doing so well ... Japan is one of just a few countries that defy the ban. Norway, Denmark/Greenland, Russia, and Iceland still practice it, mostly under the shield of ...