International Whaling Commission

In South African waters, these collisions may be a growing menace, but are not yet a major threat to populations

First-ever recorded stranding in more than 30 years in Namibia, South Africa and probably the continent

Japan’s whaling fleet left for the Southern Ocean last month, planning to kill 333 minke whales over a four-month period.

The chronically deadlocked International Whaling Commission will debate ways to boost transparency and battle alleged corruption.

Thousands of whales will continue to be killed each year following the collapse of international negotiations to redraw whaling rules.

Plans to overturn the 25-year-old ban on commercial whaling were in confusion on Monday, with governments and environmental groups divided.

Anti-whaling campaigners said on Thursday that they had uncovered an embezzlement ring at the heart of the Japanese whaling fleet, accusing crew members of stealing choice cuts…

Militant environmentalists hurled stinging acid for more than an hour onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members, officials said. Both…

Japan’s whaling fleet in the Antarctic will avoid killing humpback whales for now, but will press on with plans to slay 1 000 other whales by early in the New Year, a government…

Australia will send a fisheries patrol ship to shadow Japan’s whaling fleet near Antarctica and gather evidence for a possible international court challenge to halt the yearly…

Japan’s whaling fleet is set to depart on Sunday for an annual hunt that this year for the first time will take humpback whales — a perennial favourite among whale-watchers —…