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Commission
The 2020 biennial Commission meeting of the IWC will be held at the Grand Bernardin Resort, Portoroz, Slovenia
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Whales
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Conservation & Management
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Scientific Research
The 2020 meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee will be held at the Guildhall, Cambridge, UK
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Scientific Research
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Conservation & Management
Media Resources
The IWC welcomes enquiries from the media. As the international, inter-governmental organisation with responsibility for conservation of whales and management of whaling since 1946, we hold a significant amount of information which we are happy to share.
IWC News
Small Cetaceans Task Team workshop: South Asian River Dolphins
17 Jul 2019
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is hosting a workshop focused on the Ganges and Indus river dolphins, known collectively as South Asian river dolphins. These are categorised as endangered by the IUCN Red List, and face a range of threats including bycatch, pollution, and habitat loss as dams and barrages alter river courses.
Annual IWC-POWER Cruise sets sail from Alaska
14 Jul 2019
The 10th international research cruise in the IWC-POWER series has embarked from Dutch Harbour, Alaska. This is the latest stage in a long-term programme to determine the status of populations of the large whales found in North Pacific Waters, some of which have not been surveyed for several decades.
Expanding entanglement response capability for endangered Southern right whales in the western South Atlantic.
17 Jun 2019
An IWC entanglement response training has successfully completed in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. The training was one of the actions under a Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for this endangered population.
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Whales