 “This
is a historic day for cetacean conservation,” said Dr Susan
Lieberman, Head of WWF’s Delegation at the IWC. “The
Berlin Initiative is designed to tackle the variety of threats to
cetaceans beyond commercial whaling. These include by-catch - drowning
in nets - the biggest threat of all, causing the death of 300,000
whales, dolphins and porpoises annually.” Read
more
• Help us build on this success - donate
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• A
whale of a tragedy feature story
• Death
by drowning press release
• By-catch
report (200kb doc) | By-catch
brochure (280kb pdf)
• WWF
at 55th IWC Meeting
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