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Yacht-Jumping Southern Right Whale: A Breaching FAQ

(July 22) -- On Sunday, South Africans Paloma Werner (Cape Town Sailing Academy administrator) and Ralph Mothes (a sailing instructor) were on a yacht near Robben Island when a young 40-ton Southern right whale they'd been watching shot out of the waters and landed on the yacht. When it was all over, the couple was left...

Whaling Reduction Talks Collapse Amid Scandal

(June 23) -- Talks on a resumption of commercial whaling broke down today on the third day of an international whaling meeting that's being held under a cloud of scandal and legal disputes. Japan had hoped to cut a deal at this year's International Whaling Commission summit in Morocco that would allow it to resume...

Report: Japan Offered Prostitutes to Sway Whaling Votes

(June 14) -- Japanese officials bribed six small nations with offers of cash and call girls in return for their votes in favor of slaughtering whales, according to a newspaper investigation. Japan denies the accusations, but The Sunday Times reported that two of its journalists filmed government officials from six...

Background on International Whaling Commission

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is an international body set up by the terms of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which was signed in Washington, D.C., United States, on 2 December 1946 to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".

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