Japanese Whaling Policy

EDM number 1859 in 2007-08, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 23/06/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Animal welfare, Asia, Fisheries, Nature conservation and Wildlife.

That this House condemns the controversial Japanese policy of hunting whales under the bogus banner of scientific research; supports the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and Greenpeace objectives to expose the practice as commercial whaling under the guise of science; calls on the Government to give full backing to the IWC in its objective to forbid Japan from using a scientific research programme to kill an increasing annual quota of whales; and fully supports the IWC's proposal to assign a region of the Atlantic Ocean for a permanent whale sanctuary where all hunting will be banned.

This motion has been signed by a total of 72 MPs.