In 1978, the Alaskan Eskimo Whaling Commission (which manages the hunt in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service) committed to the IWC that it would achieve a 75 percent efficiency ...

The meeting deferred a decision on a controversial bid from Greenland to add humpback whales to its annual hunt. The Greenland Inuit are one of the indigenous peoples granted hunting quotas ...

Video: Taking it home for tea: Families inspect carcasses of whales laid out for butchering on the Faroe Islands – with numbers and initials carved in the heads – after bloody annual hunt This ...

The Iceland government suspended whale hunting for the rest of the summer on Tuesday, following a report that found the practice contravenes the country's animal welfare standards. “I have taken ...

Japan has resumed catching whales for profit, in defiance of international criticism. Its last commercial hunt was in 1986, but Japan has never really stopped whaling - it has been conducting ...

Japan’s proposal to legalize whaling has been rejected by the International Whaling Commission. The Lamalerans still hunt whales the traditional way -- in a wooden boat, with a harpoon.

Indeed, the young mammal's death once again has exposed the gaping chasm between Japan and the wider world when it comes to whale hunting: activists see a cruel and avoidable death, but the ...

A pod of killer whales have been spotted hunting down dolphin prey, before sharing the catch with their friends. Photos show the moment the orcas attacking dusky dolphins in the Humboldt Current ...

a steady stream of European whalers penetrated Inuit lands, exploiting their icy waters, hunting beluga whales, seals, and ...

whales, seals, fish and walrus. The Crown admitted that prohibiting Inuit hunters from driving out on the land to hunt does violate their rights and conceded to the defence's Charter application.

Researchers have known that humpback whales create "bubble-nets" to hunt, but they have learned that the ... July 24, 2024 — Researchers have been tracking a 26-foot endangered whale shark ...

Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt. When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh ...