Corruption at the International Whaling Commission stopped

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Corruption at the International Whaling Commission stopped
Money by Whaling-Protection Groups for Caribbean-States

(Germany/Austria) The international whaling-commission (IWC) with 89 countries as members had a conference on the island of Jersey. The agenda included a query by Great Britain into presumed corruption of some members states and how to stop them.

During the past years it was assumed that Japan was granting countries, mostly third world countries from Africa and the Pacific, “monies for development” so that these countries could join the commission and vote as such for the interests of Japan. Japan is also said to have paid the annual dues for the IWC-membership as well as transport and hotel costs for the members of such countries. On top of this there were daily bonuses paid to each of the delegates as pocket money in the amount of $ 1.000.00. Japan’s purpose to render the IWC as a toothless paper tiger, which cannot make any decisions, and to undermine the whaling-moratorium for the protection of the whales, is getting to almost become reality.

Both animal-rights organizations, ProWal (Radolfzell) and Whale-and-Dolphin-Protection-Forum (WDSF/Hagen/Westf.) recently traveled to the British Islands to support the whale protection effort.

Jürgen Ortmüller, Head of WDSF says: Norway, Japan, Iceland and Denmark together with its satellites Greenland and the Faroe Islands have been kicking the whale protection effort for decades and are only interested in financial gain. That has to be stopped, otherwise the IWC, which is whaling-organization and not a true whale-protection organization, might as well be dissolved. Japan is killing each year more than 1000 whales under the cover of scientific research although nowadays there are sacrificing the whales. The whale meat is then sold in Japanese restaurants and supermarket as a delicacy. Meanwhile the country has accumulated a cache of about 6000 tons of whale meat for which there is no more demand. The Faroe Islands are killing every year more than 1000 pilot whales and are doing commercial business with the meat as we can prove.”

Denmark will have to accept the accusation of corruption being put forward by the two whale-protection organization. The EU state prepared for Greenland as a member of the Danish Empire, applications to the IWC for renewing the hunting of hump-back whales. WDSF and ProWal are gaging this to be a “cover-up for advantageously promoting national interests”.

Andreas Morlok, CEO of ProWal, offered the delegates of the IWC in plain view of the media representatives bundles of international monies during the IWC conference. Morlok: “Corruption has to be shown off with a symbolic offering in order to publicizethis scandal. It is outrageous that a commission, which has even international legal rights, is run by 30 corrupt countries and nobody does anything about it. We demanded from the IWC members to eject these corrupt countries from the IWC so that there will be true measures of protection effected for the whales. It is gratifying that the subject corruption was also taken up at the conference of the IWC and more transparency was agreed. It may be doubted whether the corruption will be curtail.”

Before the IWC conference ProWal and WDSF asked the UN at a personal visit in New York to create a true international whale-protection commission, which will be responsible for the multi-faceted protection measures for the oceans and for the welfare of all dolphins and whales. Sadly, though, the answer was that the UN is financially not able to support such an undertaking and the opinion of the whale protectors probably also lacking the heart to afford the marine mammals a way safe future.

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