Cruelty of whaling holds key to stopping the pro-whaling bloc
	The cruelty of modern whaling holds the key to maintaining the moratorium, say animal welfare groups at the close of an historic annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in St Kitts today (20 June 2006). 20/06/2006 15:00:00

Calls to end whaling on World Ocean Day
	As people celebrate World Ocean Day today (June 8th 2006) calls are intensifying to protect whales from the cruelty of commercial whaling. Whalewatch, a coalition of over 140 non-governmental organisations in more than 55 countries, is calling for people to support its campaign to end commercial and so-called ‘scientific’ whaling. 08/06/2006

Young soles have a whale of a time
	They may not be able to walk in the footsteps of whales but an innovative new project is helping African school children to better understand their plight. 03/06/2006

Norwegian whaling increase condemned
	Whalewatch, a coalition of more than 140 non-governmental organisations from over 55 countries, has condemned Norway over its decision to allow whalers to kill almost 800 minke whales by the end of August. Norway's whaling season began yesterday and the quota of whales that will die, up from 670 in 2004, is the largest set by the Norwegian government since it resumed whaling in 1993 in defiance of the existing ban on commercial whaling that came into effect in 1986. 19/04/2005

Japanese whaling expansion condemned
	The Whalewatch coalition today condemns the news that Japan's whaling fleet has returned from a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic Ocean, having killed up to 440 minke whales for 'research', and another scientific whaling programme is commencing in the North Pacific coastal waters off Japan. 15/04/2005