The International Whaling Commission under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling placed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982. However, member countries are allowed to issue ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Researchers set sail from New Zealand on Tuesday to study whales off Antarctica without killing them — an open challenge to Japan’s killing of up to 1,000 whales a year in ...
Japan is planning to launch a satellite that will use global-positioning technology to track the migration patterns of whales. University and space officials said Wednesday that the satellite was ...