Iceland has granted a 2024 whaling license to its one remaining whaling company, Hvalur hf., according to the government, drawing criticism from whale protection advocates. The company will be allowed to kill 99 fin whales in West Iceland and Greenland and 29 of the gigantic mammals in East Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the fisheries […]
No whales will be hunted in Iceland for the second year in a row, and one of the country’s two whaling companies is ceasing operations permanently. “I’m never going to hunt whales again, I’m stopping for good,” managing director of company IP-Utgerd Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson told AFP Sunday. IP-Utgerd specialized in hunting minke whales, which […]
By Joe Roman One of the most important global conservation events of the past year was something that didn’t happen. For the first time since 2002, Iceland — one of just three countries that still allow commercial whaling — didn’t hunt any whales, even though its government had approved whaling permits in early 2019. Many […]
Officials, activists and scientists gathered in Iceland Sunday for the funeral of the nation’s first glacier to fall victim to the climate crisis. Iceland’s Okjokull glacier lost its glacier status in 2014, as AFP reported, and scientists fear it will only be the first of many to melt away. The country could lose all of […]
By Andrea Germanos A climate change victim in Iceland is set to be memorialized with a monument that underscores the urgent crisis. The victim is the former Okjökull glacier in Borgarfjörður, which scientists say is the nation’s first glacier lost to the climate crisis. Its plight was also the subject of the 2018 documentary Not […]
Japan is proposing a slew of rule changes at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Florianópolis, Brazil this week that conservationists worry would ultimately lift a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling. Japan, which launched a “scientific whaling” program in 1987 as a loophole to the moratorium, has killed more than 15,600 whales in the […]
Iceland’s multi-millionaire rogue whaler Kristján Loftsson and his company Hvalur hf have resumed their slaughter of endangered fin whales in blunt defiance of the international ban on commercial whaling. The hunt is Iceland’s first in three years and marks the start of a whaling season that could see as many as 239 of these majestic […]
Even if you try to avoid buying plastics, you might be surprised to find it lurks in many common food and beverage containers, including tin cans, disposable coffee cups and even tea bags. On Wednesday, however, the environmental group A Plastic Planet debuted the world’s first “Plastic Free Trust Mark” to help shoppers know that […]
By Kitty Block Iceland seems to be the most confused of nations when it comes to whales. On the one hand it attracts international tourists from all over the world to go out and see whales as part of their encounters with Iceland’s many natural wonders. On the other hand it kills whales for profit, […]
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