In 2018 the IWC officially shifted the organization’s purpose from whaling management to whale conservation over dozens of objections – and Japan withdrew.
Dr Kato naturally hoped that the IWC would act based on the scientific results of the research. But whales had become a totem of the environmental...
His research reveals how whales change their diets, and may even change their migrations and shift to new habitats because of changes in water temperature and...
