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IWC Meeting starts today
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is having a meeting in London, England, starting today. Their aim is to find common ground between pro- and anti-whaling nations. It is going to be a difficult meeting.
Japan has threathened it will leave the IWC if it cannot become a more effective forum. Some countries want to come to some compromise with Japan, though others remain implacably opposed to any resumption of commercial hunting.
IWC chairman William Hogarth hopes that experts Raul Estrada Oyuela (chair of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol) and Alvaro de Soto (headed discussions that ended the El Salvador civil war in 1991) will be able to steer the IWC through difficult negotiations.
He said "We're trying to find a way forward, to get past some of the real controversies we have, and try and work together. If people don't want a way forward, then I don't see much future for the management and conservation of whales."
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