The 58th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is being held from 16 to 20 June 2006 at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort and the Royal Beach Casino in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts, West Indies. The website "Kujira Portal" will broadcast the IWC meeting's highlights and press conferences starting from this Friday, 16 June 2006.
So if you live somewhere like Australia you have a choice, you can stay up all night watching the soccer (World Cup in Germany) or the 'wailing' at the IWC.
The scientific papers underpinning the discussion are available at the Scientific Committee home page of the IWC website under the section titled 'In-depth Assessments' (http://www.iwcoffice.org/_documents/sci_com/SC58docs/sc58docs.htm).
David@Tokyo will no doubt be blogging on the event from Tokyo.
Dear David,
I have the most wonderful story about IFAW and I will tell you all about it tomorrow.( Right now I'm sitting in our garden with some friends drinking some wine and enjoying the beautiful Nordic evening;))
> So the NZ Conservation Minister made a gaffe. Are you suggesting that the Japanese and Norwegian ministers don't ever make similar claims against other countries?
Chris Carter is a special case. His predecessor was not much better though.
I've never personally seen a Japanese or Norwegian minister make such terrible gaffes as Chris Carter. You'd be forgiven for thinking it was deliberate, surely?
> Why do you think the Japanese invest so much into infrastructure and aid in South Pacific nations David?
For the same reasons that the Japanese invest in other places such as Sri Lanka? 150 or so countries around the world, to be fair.
> Why do you think the Japanese research resulting from the JARPA programmes is criticised by people much more qualified than you or I?
Politics and personal agendas. If you read the criticisms, often they have very little sound science behind them. Even a lay person like myself can spot nonsense when we see it.
> Some would believe they are "misleading the world" with their claims of scientific whaling.
Yes, but then the IWC Scientific Committee basically backed Japan in 1997 on their research. What do you have to say about that? Greenpeace never tells anyone this either - they only mischeivously quote a small part of the report out of context.
> So you see, Greenpeace doesn't have the monopoly on misleading the world, depending on which point of view you take.
That's true, IFAW, Sea Shepherd certainly aid Greenpeace in misleading the world as well.
Cedric Liburd's speech was indeed fantastic. I hope to be able to get my hands on a transcript at some point.
Just watching the opening speech from St.kitts and heard The St Kitts commissioner, Cedric Liburd,rejecting all allegations of bribery to the meeting - it will be interesting to see how that is reported in the media and by NGO´s depending on how the opening resolutions go.
George
Hi Ann,
Well, on the WDCS website, where they operate their own travel company, they have one trip to the Azores where ( and I quote )
"Each trip includes whale and dolphin-watching from motor launch, yacht or raft, talks by local naturalists and WDCS researchers, and a visit to a WDCS field station to learn about conservation work. You can relax and watch the experts at work or get involved yourself - on the Azores trip, those who want to dive can help collect naturally-shed skin samples from the sea for DNA analysis"
Umm oops ...? 😉
Regarding WWF Support in Andenes, they used to many years ago - I´m not sure if they still do.
Regarding Tysfjord, the support they offer there is minimal financially speaking these days as well - although the support is/was from WWF Sweden 😉 and not WWF international
Regards
George
Sorry, not Tystfjord but Tysfjord !