"What the consequences are for the return of commercial whaling is extremely concerning," said Aimee Leslie of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). - What about commercial whaling? -Later this week, the IWC will take up Japan's proposals to return to commercial whaling. "There is massive support for aboriginal subsistence whaling but that is not to say there would be anything like that support for commercial whaling. Nicolas Entrup of Swiss-based NGO OceanCare accused Iceland of trying to "instrumentalize indigenous people's rights to go whaling" to gain momentum for wider acceptance of commercial whaling.

Source: Bangkok Post September 13, 2018 00:45 UTC