International Whaling Commission member countries to decide on lifting 25-year ban in deal that would see fewer whales killedPlans to overturn the 25-year old global ban on commercial whaling in return for reducing the numbers of whales killed each year were in confusion nowadays with governments and groups divided.
The 88 countries who are members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) nowadays agreed to meet in closed session for two days in Agadir,Morocco, to decide whether to adopt a draft map which would allow Norway, and Iceland and Japan to legally hunt whales around Antarctica and elsewhere for 10 years in exchange for a gradual drop in the number killed.
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Source: theguardian.com