Add to ORKGIn November 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov, who at the time was the Science Advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, stood on a podium in Galveston, Tex., and delivered a speech to the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s biennial conference, the premier international event in the field of marine mammal science. Addressing the 1,500 scientists present, he made what amounted to a national confession: that, beginning in 1948, the U.S.S.R. had begun a huge campaign of illegal whaling. Despite being a signatory to the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (signed in Washington, D.C., just 2 years before in 1946), the Soviets set out to pillage the world’s oceans
SummaryA remarkable new book of photographs of vertebrate skeletons celebrates how evolution can ada...
SummaryAustralia is on collision course with Japan over its whaling. Michael Gross reports
In February 2011, in the midst of Japan\u27s widely-criticized research whale hunt, the Japanese Agr...
In November 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov, who at the time was the Science Advisor to Russian Pres...
In 1948, the U.S.S.R. began a global campaign of illegal whaling that lasted for three decades and, ...
The translated and annotated materials in this volume constitute a collection of 18 formerly secret ...
The great whales of the Southern Ocean were extensively exploited by modern whaling methods, with th...
Late 19th century technological advances for capturing whales, when combined with the expansion of p...
Normile reports on Japan\u27s expanded scientific whaling program and notes that Canada, the United...
Eighteen years after initiating scientific whaling in Antarctic waters, Japan presented a new and mo...
In a splendid geographic setting, the Eskimo of western and northwestern Alaska have for centuries r...
In an open letter published last year in the New York Times, 21 distinguished scientists (including ...
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here ...
Blue and Humpback species, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established to help regula...
Historical evidence shows that whale hunting by humans has been occurring for millennia. We are stil...
SummaryA remarkable new book of photographs of vertebrate skeletons celebrates how evolution can ada...
SummaryAustralia is on collision course with Japan over its whaling. Michael Gross reports
In February 2011, in the midst of Japan\u27s widely-criticized research whale hunt, the Japanese Agr...
In November 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov, who at the time was the Science Advisor to Russian Pres...
In 1948, the U.S.S.R. began a global campaign of illegal whaling that lasted for three decades and, ...
The translated and annotated materials in this volume constitute a collection of 18 formerly secret ...
The great whales of the Southern Ocean were extensively exploited by modern whaling methods, with th...
Late 19th century technological advances for capturing whales, when combined with the expansion of p...
Normile reports on Japan\u27s expanded scientific whaling program and notes that Canada, the United...
Eighteen years after initiating scientific whaling in Antarctic waters, Japan presented a new and mo...
In a splendid geographic setting, the Eskimo of western and northwestern Alaska have for centuries r...
In an open letter published last year in the New York Times, 21 distinguished scientists (including ...
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here ...
Blue and Humpback species, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established to help regula...
Historical evidence shows that whale hunting by humans has been occurring for millennia. We are stil...
SummaryA remarkable new book of photographs of vertebrate skeletons celebrates how evolution can ada...
SummaryAustralia is on collision course with Japan over its whaling. Michael Gross reports
In February 2011, in the midst of Japan\u27s widely-criticized research whale hunt, the Japanese Agr...