The aim of this page is to give more detailed updates on these two important organizations: the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
This year, 2007, was rather unusual in that two very important meetings on Cetacean conservation took place only a few days apart: the 59th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission took place in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, from 28-31 May, and the 14th meeting of the Parties to CITES, which was held 3-15 June in The Hague, Netherlands.

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• What are IWC and CITES?  How are they linked?

• Conclusion of the 14th Conference of CITES Signatories (June 2007)

• The second week of Work of CITES started (June 2007)

• A New International Sign in Favour of Whale Conservation (June 2007)

• The 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES started (June 2007)

• Fundación Cethus at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES  (June 2007)

• 2nd Press Release 59th IWC. An historic resolution validates the Moratorium on Commercial Whaling (2 June 2007)

• 1st Press Release 59th IWC. Commercial hunting must not
  re-commence! (May 2007)

• Meeting in Tokyo (Japan) for member countries of the International Whaling Commission (February 2007)

• Reply to Iceland’s letter supporting the hunting of whales
  (October 2006)

• Iceland re-commences Commercial Whaling (October 2006)

• Press Releases on the 58th IWC Meeting (June 2006)

• Press Releases on the 57th IWC Meeting (June 2005)

• Start of the 57th IWC Meeting (June 2005)

• Uruguay Could Decide the Future of Whales (April 2005)

• Inter-sessional RMS – The weaknesses of a whaling proposal
  (26 November 2004)

• 13th Meeting of CITES Parties (October 2004)

• 56th Meeting of the IWC (July 2004)

• Meeting of the Scientific Commission prior to the 56th Meeting of CITES (June 2004)

• Iceland began its programme of “scientific whaling” (August 2003)

• Iceland re-commenced whaling (August 2003)

• 55th Meeting of the IWC (Germany, June 2003)

• Japan yet again... (April 2003)

• NGOs lobby the Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainable Development for Argentina to continue to protect whales
  (Argentina, April 2003)

• The new CITES Appendices come into effect (February 2003)

• 12th Meeting of the CITES Parties (Chile, November 2002)

• 54th Meeting of the IWC (Japón, May 2002)

• Press release from the State Foreign Office (January 2002)

• 53rd Meeting of the IWC (England, July 2001)

• Pictures of the 53rd Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (July 2001)