Earth Protect Blog

by Richard Black The Australian minister for sustainability, environment, water, population and communities is due in Panama City for a couple of days to bang the drum for what has been his country's favourite environmental cause - whaling. But it might be a visit that no-one notices. When I cove...

By International Fund for Animal Welfare With President Barack Obama declaring June "National Oceans Month," the sanctity of the marine ecosystem resonates around the globe. Reaffirming their commitment to the oceans and those that inhabit them, Representatives Bill Keating and Howard Berman have i...

ST. HELIER, Jersey, UK, July 12, 2011 (ENS) - The seas around Antarctica will be the scene of confrontations over whaling again this year. Japan will send its whaling fleet to the Antarctic again, a senior Japanese official has told BBC News, and the Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling vessels will be ther...

On the eve of an international meeting to decide the fate of thousands of whales, New Zealand's foreign minister is warning  that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is facing total collapse. Murray McCully told TVNZ's Q and A programme that could result in anarchy on the high seas and ...