The smell of fermented seal hung heavy in the air as our tour guide led us to a makeshift outdoor market, hidden among the ...

Japan's push to have activist Paul Watson extradited from Greenland is a law-enforcement issue and nothing to do with whaling, Japan's new foreign minister said Friday in rare public comments on the ...

In the 1970s, a small group of Greenpeace activists had a unique idea for how they could put an end to commercial whaling.

Commercial whaling does still happen, though – namely by Iceland, Norway and Japan. "Greenpeace's actions inspired the public," Finnsson says, "and in 1982 Greenpeace and other non-profits ...

Congress banned all other American whaling with the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 — though whales are still hunted by Japan, Iceland and several Nordic countries, their meat considered a ...

Delgadillo said pro-whaling stances by countries that do not ... along with Norway and Iceland. It continued the practice for "scientific" purposes after the moratorium was introduced in 1986 ...

The food security proposal, in turn, was submitted by a host of African countries which also have no whaling tradition but ...