Iceland has allowed its only remaining whaling company to continue hunting this season despite criticism from animal rights campaigners. The Nordic country issued a new whaling permit to Hvalur hf, ...

Iceland's government said Tuesday that it had granted a license to hunt 128 fin whales for the country's sole whaling company amid widespread criticism of the practice. Iceland, Norway and Japan are ...

On Dec. 6, Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters. It granted the fin whale hunting license to Hvalur hf., the ...

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LONDONLONDON — Iceland’s government said Tuesday that it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year. Animal rights groups ...

As the 53rd meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in London, WWF, the conservation organization, is warning that Iceland's attempt to rejoin the IWC while maintaining a ...

To fulfill Barack Obama's campaign promise to protect whales, the administration has used the bully pulpit -- and an iPhone app. Our most recent update on the promise to "strengthen the international ...

REYKJAVIK, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Iceland said on Tuesday it would allow whaling of fin and minke whales -- a practice opposed by conservationists -- for another five years. Iceland, in crisis after its ...

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's interim government said on Wednesday it would allow whale hunting to go ahead this year but left in doubt whether the practice would be allowed to continue beyond 2009.

An aerial team from the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium spotted this fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) during a 2017 survey of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts ...

Whale meat for sale at a market in Shimonoseki, Japan -- the country has sharply reduced its imports from Iceland - Copyright AFP/File Daniel SLIM Whale meat for sale ...