The whaling fishery, from the 1800’s to the end of the 1900s, was totally unsustainable almost anywhere, and even the regulations in the 20th century under the International Whaling Commission ...

While saving these species from extinction provides hope for the future, Dr Sophia Nicolov, AHRC Career Fellow and ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

The PBS series Monstrum examined the ancient Japanese legend of Bake-kujira, a ghostly whale that seeks vengeance on humans.

Thirdly, industrial whaling in the twentieth century. Whaling was an imperial industry, contributing to the expansion of the empire and consolidation of its presence. Many Cetacea specimens held by ...

Though little is widely known about whaling, aside from Herman Melville’s 1851 classic "Moby Dick," it was America’s first global industry, spanning prerevolutionary times through the start of the ...

Most remaining whaling nations had given up in good faith by the time the ban came into effect in 1986, and the moratorium is widely considered one of the 20th century’s leading conservation victories ...

Following a voyage of 16 days they arrived at South Georgia, also in Antarctica. Determined to reach a whaling station at Stromness, Shackleton and crew set across the frozen island on foot.

Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so drastically reduced in the 20th century, and attempts to see whaling through the eyes of the time.

The American public in the early 20th century was in the grips of dinosaur ... of blue whales disappeared during the era of commercial whaling, in recent decades, the species’ population has ...

A new WWF report dispels the myth that it is necessary to kill whales in order to study them. Since the moratorium on whaling took effect in 1986, more than 7,000 whales – minke, sperm and Bryde's ...