Fact Sheets

• One Page Description: Protecting Whales

  • Feb 01, 2008, 12:10 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  In order to prevent the continued unfettered killing of whales in the world’s oceans, and to ensure the enforceability of international measures aimed at protecting them, the Pew Environment Group launched a major initiative in 2007.More

   

Reports

• Chair's Summary of the Pew Whales Commission

  • Feb 10, 2009, 17:05 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  The Commission meeting was the third such event organized by the Pew Environment Group. More

   

• Policy Guide for the Pew Whales Commission

  • Jan 26, 2009, 16:55 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  This Policy Guide was prepared by the Secretariat of the Pew Environment Group, to assist the Chair and the members of the Pew Whales Commission.More

   

• Turning the Page: Bringing Whale Conservation into the 21st Century

  • Jan 23, 2009, 15:25 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  Created in 1949 pursuant to the entry into force of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will turn 60 in 2009.More

   

• Who’s Eating All the Fish? Debunking the Food Security Rationale for Culling Cetaceans

  • Jun 24, 2008, 12:15 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  In response to the global fisheries crisis, characterized by falling abundances of resource species, falling catches, increasing habitat destruction, and extremely high subsidies, the advocates of whaling have been advancing a new rationale for hunting of marine cetaceans.More

   

• A Report of the Second Pew Whale Symposium: A Change in Climate for Whales

  • Feb 03, 2008, 10:25 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  The Second Pew Whale Symposium, entitled “A change in climate for whales,” took place at UN University Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on 30-31 January 2008.More

   

• Chair's Summary of the Second Pew Whale Symposium

  • Jan 30, 2008, 15:10 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  One hundred participants from 28 different nationalities met at the Headquarters of the United Nations University in Tokyo on 30-January 31, 2008, for the second Pew Whale Symposium.More

   

• Chair’s Summary of the First Pew Whale Symposium

  • Apr 26, 2007, 14:20 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  More than 60 people from around the world gathered in New York at the United Nations to analyze options for the conservation of whales, specifically exploring policies for resolving the current impasse over commercial and scientific whaling at the International Whaling Commission.More

   

• Saving Endangered Whales at No Cost

  • Jan 09, 2007, 10:35 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most critically endangered marine species. More

   

Other Resources

• Teleconference to Discuss the International Whaling Commission's Annual Meeting

  • Jun 16, 2010, 12:25 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  A teleconference was held on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by the Pew Environment Group, World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace to discuss efforts to finally bring an end to the impasse between pro-whaling and anti-whaling countries in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be the focus of the IWC’s Annual Meeting, opening in Agadir, Morocco, on Monday, June 21.More

   

Videos

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  Wild Chronicles: Whales

  • May 04, 2009, 15:25 EST
  • Pew Whale Conservation Project

  The Pew Environment Group worked in collaboration with National Geographic Television to tell this story.More