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10 July 2001
World's top airlines refuse to transport Norwegian whale meat and blubber.

27 June 2001
Factory fishing not whales is the cause of low fish stocks.

10 May 2001
Japan continues to mock science - whaling fleet will set out on third hunt within a year.

3 May 2001
Norway embarks on whale hunt for commercial export.

27 April 2001
Caribbean's support South Pacific Whale Sanctuary

press release archive

4 May 2002
Greenpeace protests Norwegian plans to kill whales and export the meat

Kiel, Germany - An entire flotilla of fifty Greenpeace activists escorted the Kiel-Oslo ferry out of port today, to protest Norway's imminent whaling expedition.

Activists took to four traditional sailing vessels, six smaller boats, 12 canoes and even small inflatables, many wearing survival suits to brave the cold, fog, rain of spring weather in northern Germany.

The protesters' banners read "Stop Whaling" to draw attention to Norway's planned whaling expedition, expected to begin within days in the North-East Atlantic and the North Sea. The whalers want to kill 674 minke whales between mid-May and the end of August. Greenpeace opposes the hunt, as it does the Norwegian government's plans to export the whale meat and blubber to Japan.

These exports would contravene CITES (the convention on international trade in endangered species) which strictly prohibits trade in whale products beyond a country's borders.

Norway and Japan do not accept this trade ban. Both countries have declared their opposition to this CITES resolution by "taking reservations", so that they do not feel legally bound by the trade ban. Japan and Norway are also the only countries to have disregarded the 1986 IWC (International Whaling Commission) ban.