IFAW: Whale Program

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WHALE DETECTION

IFAW and partners developed an acoustic buoy that listens for right whale calls. When the buoys detect a right whale, the recording is beamed via satellite to analysts on shore. Ships then receive an alert to avoid fatal ship strikes.
Click here to see how it works.

SONG OF THE WHALE TOUR

Take an interactive tour of IFAW’s one-of-a-kind whale research vessel, Song of the Whale. Through the interactive tour, you’ll see how researches live, while exploring the oceans to learn more about whales.
Click here to take the interactive tour.

WHALES AND FISHERIES

Whales are being killed all over the world in large numbers. Meanwhile, the fisheries have been suffering from a dramatic drop in the number of fish in the oceans. Whaling advocates are saying whales are eating all of the fish.
Click here to watch an enlightening video.

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Latest IFAW Blogs

Hey, that’s my lunch! Plankton pudding

I said I’d write more about the corruption of Tokyo’s Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR). “No names, no pack drill”, as used to be said in the British army and probably still is.
ICR has spent several years – and billions of Yen – trying to convince the world that whales are voracious consumers of “our” fish, so must be “culled” ruthlessly, numerously and without compassion. They have distributed (more…)

Press release: Iceland illegally exports whale meat to the European Union

At INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
Press release, for immediate release
Official data states Iceland is defying international regulations to illegally export whale meat to the European Union
(London, 18 March 2010) – Icelandic government records state that the country is exporting meat from slaughtered whales to Latvia and Denmark, as well as Japan – in defiance of international law and a global whaling ban.

Fictions and Factions

Funny thing about the media. So often its operatives are given a word, a phrase, and use it endlessly without enquiring whether it is correct or appropriate. Peter Bethune, a New Zealander, Captain of the Sea Shepherd vessel Ady Gil that was rammed and sunk by a Japanese whaling-security ship, has in practically all the numerous press reports of his arrest been identified as an “anti-whaling activist”. You (more…)

Senator John Kerry wants to save the whales!

Great news whale huggers, Senator Kerry just introduced the “International Whale Conservation and Protection Act of 2010!” The bill is a companion to the bill to the one that Members of the House Eni Faleomavaega, William Delahunt, Madeleine Bordallo, and Mazie Hirono, introduced last May in the House (HR2455). The bill addresses major threats to whales including commercial whaling, ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, (more…)

Let us begin at the beginning and go on until we reach the end

I’ve been watching the blow-by-blow account of the trial in Japan of the Tokyo Two, especially Sara Holden’s excellent explanatory video on the Greenpeace International web-site. That’s the Greenpeace Japan activists who were arrested a couple of years ago for trying to reveal corruption in the so-called “Scientific” whaling programme and instead found themselves charged with stealing whale meat and facing ten-years imprisonment if found guilty. I have (more…)