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Day 1: Anti-whaling still in Majority
	Despite what was thought to be a certain defeat for whale protection, anti-whaling nations managed today to hold on to a narrow majority in St Kitts.

Day 2: Latest update from St. Kitts
	Implications of the recent votes add tension to the talks between pro whalers Japan, Norway & Iceland, and the coalition.

Day 2: Conservation concerns grow
	Japan talks of the benefits of whaling and why it needs to lift the ban. Conservationists are concerned about an increase in whale trade if the ban is lifted.

Day 3: Southern Whale Sanctuary saved
	New Zealand and Great Britain urge all IWC members to vote against consumptive whale practices.

Day 4: Coastal communities depend on whale watching
	Argentinean commissioner explains why his country supports whale watching

New Footage Fuels Welfare Argument
	As pro and anti-whalers meet in St Kitts to debate whale killing methods (Sunday 11 - Tuesday 13 June), new undercover footage is released which proves that there is no humane way to kill a whale at sea - even in optimum weather conditions.

Day1: 30 for - 33 against: majority held
	The commissioner for Australia speaks out against Japan, and it's "belligerent attitude" toward marine mammal conservation.

Day 3: Danish vote means anti-whalers lose first vote
	Denmark supports Japan in calling the moratorium 'no longer necesssary'

Day 4: Whalewatch is outraged by 'St Kitts Declaration'
	IWC observers call on Danish and UK public to speak out against whaling

Day 5: Welfare crucial to the Moratorium

Day 3:How could commercial whaling resume?
	Japan want to lift the moratorium protecting whales from mass commercial slaughter by revising the current guidlines in place that protect them.

58th IWC Meeting
	This year is a particularly crucial year, as pro-whaling nations appear to have gathered enough support within the IWC to overturn some vital and long standing conservation and welfare measures. Meanwhile, some former anti-whaling countries have lost sight of the key reason to oppose all whaling…whaling is inherently cruel.

Dramatic Undercover Footage
	Dramatic undercover footage of whale hunting released last year, dispels the myth promoted by pro-whaling countries like Norway that whales are hunted and killed within two minutes of being harpooned.

Troubled Waters
	Throughout the 20th Century, two million great whales were slaughtered, with some species hunt to the brink of extinction. Worldwide concern let to the ban on commercial whaling in 1986, yet loopholes still allow the killing to continue.