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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY
Odyssey log: Real Audio - >28k >64k January 8, 2002 'Scientific Whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary' "When the crew returned to port and our first exposure to the news in ... Weather Update' "Besides the usual isolated thunderstorms, the arriving of the summer season (in the Southern Hemisphere) brings the occurrence of Tropical Cyclones. These storms are characteristic of all tropical areas ...
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2006 Meeting in St. Kitts & Nevis
A proposal to abolish the Southern Ocean Sanctuary was again presented to the Commission by Japan. It would also have required a three- ... in abundance for several of the stocks of humpback, blue and right whales in the Southern Hemisphere, although they remain at reduced levels compared to their pre-whaling numbers. Information remains ...
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Whale sanctuaries
This sanctuary was continued by the IWC from its inception until 1955, when the area was opened initially ... has since been extended twice. At the 46th (1994) Annual Meeting the IWC adopted the Southern Ocean Sanctuary as another area in which commercial whaling is prohibited. The northern boundary of this ...
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Whaling Convention. The South Pacific Sanctuary proposal is being submitted for discussions in the Conservation Committee by Australia and New Zealand. ... without any recommendation of the IWC Scientific Committee. Japan lodged an objection to the Southern Ocean Sanctuary as provided for under the Convention and it is therefore not bound by it ...
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IWMC.org - Letter to the editor by Seiji Ohsumi - 26 January 2000
Convention.... Neither the IWCs moratorium on commercial whaling nor its Southern Ocean Sanctuary diminish the rights of Parties under Article VIII . Your Prime Ministers statement that begins ... there was no scientific basis for the establishment of the IWCs Southern Ocean Sanctuary, there is no scientific basis for a sanctuary in the South Pacific or for a global whale ...
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Proactive Protectionism
High North Alliance for the International Whaling Commission in Oman. Proactive Protectionism WWF Sanctuary Addresses Hypothetical Problem By Simon Ward Sadly this is becoming an annual event, but the Harpoon ... be why WWF is fighting to enforce it. Yet as WWF well knows, the Southern Ocean Sanctuary serves no conservation purpose, which is why it clearly states in the amendment to ...
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Ocean Alliance - WHALE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE - Conservation
The 1992 collapse of the moratorium on commercial whaling removes an important pillar from ... as proposed by France to the IWC in 1992 and passed 26 May 1994. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary has a high proportion of the world's surviving baleen whales. Alternative research methods ...
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Ocean Conservation Links: Protection and Solutions/Marine Protected Areas
Southern Ocean Rate It Communities and Coasts Programme http://www.fspi.org.fj/program/coastal.htm ... Sanctuary Rate It Global Seagrass Monitoring Network http://www.seagrassnet.org/ a global monitoring program to investigate and document both the status of seagrass resources world wide and the threats to ...
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EcoEarth.Info Environment Links: Ocean/Protection and Solutions/Marine Protected Areas
Southern Ocean Added: Oct. 22, 2006 | Rate It Communities and Coasts Programme http://www.fspi.org.fj/program/coastal.htm (2 votes ...
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Opinion on the Legality of the Designation of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by the International Whaling Commission.
Whaling Commission The "Memorandum of Option on the Legality of the Designation of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by the IWC" written by Professor William T Burke, submitted by Japan raises ... ICRW makes no provision for dispute settlement by independent means, the Commission's decision on the Sanctuary, taken through use of the normal voting procedures laid down in Article V, is determinative, ...
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