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Killer ships: About 60% of the ships involved in whale strikes are container vessels. (Xiao Jinsong/Visual China Group/Getty Images)

Campaign aims to stop ship strikes to save whales

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

Critically endangered blue whale washes up in Walvis Bay

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

A pod of Humpback whales has been spotted in the Noordhoek area.

International call for Japan to halt Antarctic whaling

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

Whaling forum seeks end to backroom dealing

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

No end to whale hunting ban as talks sink

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

Greenpeace gives conditional support to whaling plan

Greenpeace gives conditional support to whaling plan

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

Japan’s whalers accused of smuggling whalemeat

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…

Japanese whaling ship attacked by activists

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 removes humpback whales from kill list

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 sends patrols to shadow Japan whalers

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 fleet plan to hunt humpbacks draws protests

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 —…