Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Nigel Evans (Conservative), on Tuesday, 23 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 67 members in total.

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WHALING

That this House notes that the whaling moratorium was introduced in 1986 in order to combat the fact that many populations of the great whales had been drastically reduced by over-hunting, and that whaling itself, based on the firing of explosive harpoons into large and intelligent animals, was cruel; is concerned by the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) proposal to legitimise the commercial whaling activities of Japan, Norway and Iceland; understands that the proposal seeks to set official IWC quotas for whales that they may hunt, in all the places where they currently hunt them in defiance of the moratorium, including the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, for the first time in 25 years; believes that such a proposal represents a conservational disaster; further believes that the proposal represents no guarantee of a significant reduction in the number of whales killed in the short term; and calls on the Government to oppose any proposal that condones or endorses commercial whaling if the issue is raised and voted on at the IWC conference in Agadir, Morocco, in June.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1157 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

Lord Brady of Altrincham

Jim Dobbin

John Austin

Paul Keetch

Lindsay Hoyle

Subjects

Animal welfare Wildlife

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk