We live in a new maritime environment. Once maritime cooperation could be equated with putting down pirates. But Captain John Silver no longer sails the Spanish Main; Hen ..
Author: Eugene Lapointe
Eugene Lapointe is the president of the IWMC World Conservation Trust and a former secretary-general of CITES.
An extraordinarily undiplomatic communique from the EU has been circulated to International Whaling Commission members. It calls upon the Faroese Government to immediatel ..
Well, suddenly I find myself in near agreement with Sea Shepherd, an organisation a US judge once denounced as pirates, for their “aggressive and high-profile attac ..
News comes to us from Reykjavik that the Hvalur whaling company, Iceland’s only whaling operation, stands ready to recommence commercial whaling with an intention o ..
At CITES’ CoP-18, the assembled NGOs made sharks their iconic species of choice, knocking elephants off their number one spot. The question is, why did an ugly predator ..
On Tuesday, Chris Lischewski, the driving force behind the creation of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), received a three-year prison sentence ..
Why did the killing of a 900-pound killer whale (Orcinus orc) last month by fisherfolk from St. Lucia cause outrage? Certainly, the fisherfolk involved were astounded by ..
When are tens of tonnes of humpback whale meat most welcome? After a volcano erupts, then rainfall turns ash slurry into mudslides, destroying crops, cutting electricity ..
Of all conflicts between advocates of sustainable use of wildlife and advocates of animal rights, none has been more enduring than the sealing issue. For more than 50 yea ..
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