Define the practice.
Names matter. The kind of hunt, species, location, legal basis, and stated purpose all change the meaning of a fact.
An independent reference
Whaling is global.
So is the context.
Whaling Watch maps contemporary whaling across borders, legal systems, cultures, and changing ecological questions—without reducing a complicated subject to a slogan.
The watch
One subject.
Many realities.
Commercial whaling, Aboriginal and subsistence whaling, national law, treaty law, population science, food systems, cultural continuity: these are not interchangeable categories. The site is built to make the distinctions visible.
New field guide
When a whale comes ashore.
Burial, towing, transport, research, preservation—even deliberate explosives. What happens after a large whale dies near a populated coast is a scientific, cultural, environmental, and public-works decision with no universal answer.
Read the field guideShow the rulebook.
“Legal” and “illegal” are rarely enough. Treaties, reservations, objections, permits, quotas, and national law belong in the picture.
Keep the receipts.
Every substantial claim should lead back to a primary, scientific, legal, or clearly identified community source.
The long view
Reliable information should be easier to find than a stereotype.
Whaling Watch is being built as an accessible record: what is happening, where, why, under which rules, and how the picture changes over time.
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