whale conservation

INTERVIEW | Hidehiro Kato: Battle for Science, Sustainability over Politics in the IWC

On: 2022-Sep-04

Part 2 of 2 Read Part 1: INTERVIEW | Hidehiro Kato on Optimism for the Future of Whales In October 2022, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will hold a meeting in Slovenia. This is the second of two articles based on a conversation with Dr Hidehiro Kato, one of Japan’sContinue Reading

INTERVIEW | Hidehiro Kato on Whale Research and Optimism for the Future

On: 2022-Sep-03

Dr Kato naturally hoped that the IWC would act based on the scientific results of the research. But whales had become a totem of the environmental movement.