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Commission
The 2018 biennial Commission meeting of the IWC will be held at the Costao Do Santinho Resort, Florianopolis, Brazil.
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Whales
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Conservation & Management
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Scientific Research
The 2018 meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee will be held at the Hotel Golf, Bled, Slovenia.
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Scientific Research
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Conservation & Management
The International Whaling Commission (IWC)
The IWC is the global body charged with the conservation of whales and the management of whaling. The IWC currently has 89 member governments from countries all over the world.
The Commission's role has expanded since its establishment in 1946. In addition to regulation of whaling, today's IWC works to address a wide range of conservation issues including bycatch and entanglement, ocean noise, pollution and debris, collision between whales and ships, and sustainable whale watching.
Read a summary of current work programmes below:
IWC Intersessional Report 2016-18.
IWC67 Chair's Report 2018.
Scientific Committee workshop: western North Pacific common minke whales
25 Feb 2019
The Scientific Committee today begins a review of minke whales in the western North Pacific this month. The process, known as an ‘Implementation Review’ is expected to take at least two years to complete and aims to assess the numbers and structure of this population.
Member Map
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