Posted by Dave (in Anchorage, Alaska)
Well, it looks like we’re smack bang in the middle of conference season. Some delegates from the IWC in Anchorage barely had time to pack their Alaskan souvenirs before they were on planes again, jetting off to the Hague for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species conference (CITES). Damn – even conservation creates a carbon footprint…
So, less than a week since I wrote a blog called “Commercial whaling ban reinforced at IWC in Anchorage“, parties to CITES have sucessfully rejected an effort by whaling nations to undermine a related ban on the international trade in whale products.