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Article: International Marine Mammal Project.(Earth Island news)
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- Earth Island Journal
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- June 22, 2007
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ECO, the IMMP-edited daily newsletter, returned to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in May. ECO represents the voice of the whales and the conservation community at IWC meetings, where NGOs are not allowed to speak or debate the important questions of whaling and whale protection. IMMP provides the staff to write, edit, copy, and distribute ECO every day during the IWC meetings.
The May 2007 meetings were particularly contentious. Held in Anchorage, Alaska, the meeting followed up last year's efforts by Japan to take over the IWC by doling out billions of dollars in fisheries aid to small nations in return for their support ...