Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

WDC Whale and Dolphin Conservation ( until autumn 2012 WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society ) was founded in 1987 in Bath, England and is now the largest international non-profit types and animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to the protection of whales and dolphins and their habitat. WDC is active worldwide and has offices in Germany, Austria, Australia, Argentina, Great Britain, Scotland and the USA.

Projects

In addition to political lobbying ( campaigns) WDC supports field research projects and has been present for many years at numerous international conferences, such as the International Whaling Commission ( IWC). More than 40 conservation projects worldwide are performed annually on all continents, in cooperation with the local population - the philosophy of WDC is based on cooperation with people in the project country.

WDC is represented in all relevant international fora for the protection of marine mammals and was able to obtain numerous successes and thus improvements for whales and dolphins. In addition, WDC is involved in the development of regional protection agreements, and is a founding partner of the " Bonn Convention ", the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).

The declared aims of the organization are:

  • The ongoing threat of whales and their habitats to reduce and eliminate permanently.
  • To increase the interest in whales and to inform the people about the need to protect the whales.
  • To prevent the threat and the suffering of individual whales, both in captivity and in their natural habitat.
  • To stop the intentional killing of whales for commercial and so-called scientific purposes.
  • The unnecessary killing of whales to stop by human threats such as pollution or fishing.
  • The extinction of endangered species to prevent and to accelerate the rescue of whales.
  • To provide adequate protection for all habitats of whales and maintain it.

Criticism in 1996

In the criticism of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society in 1996 after a call against the Faroese whaling. In an illustrated article in the British newspaper The Times claimed the organization that the opinion of the Faroese population is mainly against whaling, this would, however, suppressed by the government. How WDCS could make no independent evidence for the claim in a commissioned by the Faroese Pilot Whaler 's Association reports the Advertising Standards Authority and had to refrain in future this claim.

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