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Temat: Annual IWC meeting opens
...that we liquidate the (IWC) scientific committee?" asked Russia's IWC commissioner Valentin Ilyashenko. "A bloc has been created, all scientific arguments are useless... and the interests of countries here are divided by political motives." Russia is home to the largest aboriginal hunt in the world, in Chukotka, and would be keen to pre-empt anything that might curtail that operation. The US also voted on Greenland's side. Safeguarding the hunt of its Alaskan Inuit is a key domestic priority. Greenland's claim to be acting solely on the basis of science and need was somewhat undermined by its offer to forego some of its annual fin whale quota if the humpback proposal went through. Progress block For the first time at IWC meetings, the EU had decided to formulate an agreed position and vote on it en bloc, as it does in other environmental treaty organisations. On this occasion Denmark was excused, as it speaks for...
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Temat: IWC 2007
US wins whaling quotas for
Alaskan inuit
Source: WDCS, 30/5/07
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) today renewed Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling quotas for the inuit peoples of Russia and Alaska, USA, and for the inhabitants of a Caribbean island. However, Greenland's controversial plans to increase its hunts, including targeting two new species, have not yet been approved. As the second day of the IWC meeting draws to a close, the parties do not appear to be any closer to...
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