Mozambique is making great strides in efforts to safeguard marine life in its coastal reserves, but there’s much more to do.
The battle over Japan’s controversial whaling program is moving from the high seas to the United Nations’ highest court.
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/ 8 December 2011
Japan’s whaling fleet has left port under heavy guard, where more clashes are expected with members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
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/ 17 November 2007
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 — sparking protests from activists. Japan abandoned commercial whaling in accordance with an international moratorium in 1986, but began the next year to conduct what it calls scientific research whaling.