International Whaling Commission

This article is a report on the sixty-fifth meeting of the International Whaling Commission in 2014. The author discusses the important results of this meeting, the first since the Commission moved to biennial meetings, including the re-authorisation of Denmark’s Greenland aboriginal subsistence wha...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Yearbook of International Environmental Law
Main Author: Wheen, Nicola
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10523/8834
https://doi.org/10.1093/yiel/yvx075
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Summary:This article is a report on the sixty-fifth meeting of the International Whaling Commission in 2014. The author discusses the important results of this meeting, the first since the Commission moved to biennial meetings, including the re-authorisation of Denmark’s Greenland aboriginal subsistence whaling hunt and the defeat of a refined proposal for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary.