IWC69 Report: What the Results Show Us
2025-02-17
[SPONSORED] The International Whaling Commission strayed further from its original purpose at IWC69. Should it evolve into an NGO instead of an IGO?
IWC69 Report: Nonbinding Resolutions Highlight New and Old Trends
2025-02-17
[SPONSORED] Members submitted nonbinding resolutions at IWC69, revealing a wide divide between anti-whaling nations and the ones supporting sustainable whaling.
IWC69 Report: Catch Quotas and Sanctuary
2025-02-17
[SPONSORED] IWC69 applied the automatic renewal of Indigenous whaling strike limits for the first time. With this option, is there a need for the commission?
IWC69 Report: Main IWC Agenda Items of the Session
2025-02-17
[SPONSORED] From the choice of location to language and the lack of travel support, why did the IWC69 create hurdles for developing country members?
IWC69 Report: Has the International Whaling Commission become a Zombie?
2025-02-17
[SPONSORED] Dr Joji Morishita, Japan’s non-member observer to the IWC, discusses IWC69 and prospects for the whaling commission’s future in a 5-part series.
Fisheries and Food Security in Japan’s Rich Waters
2024-12-07
[SPONSORED] Achieving sustainable use requires more food self-sufficiency, using diverse local fisheries and whale resources.
Getting to Food Security with More Variety in Food Sources
2024-12-06
[SPONSORED] It is “reckless and dangerous” to global food security that 90% of humanity’s food supply is supported by only 23 foodstuffs.
Whales in the Context of Food Security
2024-12-05
[SPONSORED] Diversifying local food sources, including whales, would help broaden the recklessly narrowed food basket of 23 species.
[Food Trek] Kochi Celebrates its Whale Cuisine and 400 Years of Whaling
2023-02-23
Visit Cape Muroto in Kochi and learn more about living with whales at the museum, then sample delicious local whale cuisine at friendly local restaurants.
Endangered Gray Whale Bones Unearthed as Students and Researchers Take On Super Science Project
2023-02-17
Japanese students learn about the ocean in a project helping university researchers to recover the bones of an endangered gray whale in Chiba that died in 2016.