This February, the Japanese Government will be hosting a meeting in Tokyo to discuss the future of the whaling industry. They will be inviting other governments in attempt to create an illusion of widespread support for an end to the moratorium on commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

We’re asking Denmark not to go to this meeting.

Denmark is a swing country at the IWC. IT takes a strong pro-whaling line because its delegation is dominated by the wishes of Greenland and the Faroe islands. But a majority of its population opposes whaling, and Denmark has supported many positive initiatives to protect whales and maintain transparency at the IWC.

Write to the Foreign Minister of Denmark and ask him NOT to support a return to whaling and not to participate in Japan’s attempt to undermine the moratorium »