A short film is now available to provide a guided tour of the Whale Watching Handbook, a comprehensive online tool, providing information on sustainable whale watching to regulators, policy makers, members of the public planning a trip, and the whale watching industry.

The 11^th annual cruise of the Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research programme (IWC-POWER) has successfully completed and returned to port in Japan.

A new section of the online Whale Watching Handbook has been published, containing a series of simple, educational factsheets on key concepts of whale and dolphin biology, ecology and conservation.

The Conservation Committee of the IWC has concluded a very productive virtual meeting and their report is now available.  

The Scientific Committee of the IWC has endorsed a report concluding that the impact of marine debris on cetaceans is more substantial than previously thought. 

The report of the IWC Scientific Committee’s annual meeting is published today. Covid-19 prevented the world’s leading cetacean scientists from meeting in-person for the first time since 1955 but the Committee still found ways to discuss priority issues and provide advice to the Commission.