Japan resumes commercial whale hunting

Mongabay
Jul 2, 2019, 2:30 pm241 pts
For years, Japan exploited a loophole in international rules to continue hunting whales despite being a member of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) bound by the commercial whaling moratorium that went into effect in 1986. The country has now quit the IWC altogether and resumed commercial whaling. IWC…

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