Symposium Reference Documents

The following list of documents and references have been compiled ahead and as a result of the Symposium.

Symposium Documents
Documents
Opening Speeches
Speaker Presentations
Participant Contributions
Background Documents

Symposium Documents

The Varda Group for the Pew Trusts (January 2008) "A Change in Climate for Whales. Backgrounder on the International Efforts for the Conservation of Whales: Is there a Common Way Forward?".
The Varda Group for the Pew Trusts (2007) "Turning the Page: Bringing Whale Conservation into the 21st Century".

Documents

Intersessional Meeting on the Future of the IWC, Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel, 6-8 March 2008.
Chairman's Summary of the Pew Tokyo Whale Symposium, January 2008 (English|Français)
Declaration of the Third Latin American Encounter on Cetacean Conservation (Spanish/English), Buenos Aires, Dec 2007.
IWC Chairman's Summary of the 59 Annual Meeting, Anchorage, May 2007.
Chairman's Summary of the Pew New York Whale Symposium, April 2007.
Chairman's Summary of the Normalization Meeting, Tokyo, February 2007.
Declaration of the Second Latin American Encounter on Cetacean Conservation, Diciembre 2006 (Spanish/English).
Declaration of the First Latin American Encounter on Cetacean Conservation, Buenos Aires, Noviembre 2005 (Spanish).

ENB Reporting of the Symposia

ENB Report of the Tokyo Whale Symposium (English Version | 日本語版)
ENB Report of the Pew New York Whale Symposium.

Opening Speeches

Mr. Joshua S. Reichert, Managing Director, Pew Environment Group (PDF).
Dr. Srikantha Herath, Senior Academic Programme Officer and the Officer-in-Charge of UNU’s Environment and Sustainable Development Programme (PDF).
Judge Neroni Slade, Chairman of the Tokyo Whale Symposium (PDF).

Speakers' Presentations

Panel 1
Mr. Joji Morishita – International Affairs Division, Japanese Fisheries Agency (PDF).
Dr. Toshio Kasuya - Independent Cetacean Scientist, Japan (PDF).
Mr. Jun Hoshikawa – Executive Director, Greenpeace Japan (PDF).

Panel 2
Professor Akio Morishima - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Japan Climate Policy Centre (PDF).
Mr. Juan Mayr - Former Environment Minister of Colombia (PDF).
Mr. Olivier Deleuze - Chief, Major Groups and Stakeholders Branch, Division of Regional Cooperation, UNEP. Professor (PDF).
Sam Johnston - Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University (On behalf of A.H. Zakri - Director of the UNU Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS), and Former Vice-Chair of the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment) (PDF).

Panel 3
Ambassador Eduardo Iglesias – IWC Commissioner for Argentina (PDF 1 & 2).
Mr. Richard Cowan – IWC Commissioner for UK (PDF).
Professor Tetsu Sato - Professor of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Nagano University Faculty of Tourism and Environmental Studies (PDF).
Ms. Heather Sohl – Species Trade and Policy Officer, WWF (On behalf of Sue Lieberman, Director, Species Programme, WWF International) (PDF).

Participants Contributions

Contributions by Participants of the Tokyo Whale Symposium will be made available, where possible, shortly after the end of the meeting.

Background Documents

• Baker CS, Clapham, P.J. (2004) "The ethics of scientific whaling: issues and alternatives".
• Burns, C.G. (2001) "From the Harpoon to the Heat: Climate Change and the International Whaling Commission in the 21st Century".
• Burns, C.G. and Wandesforde-Smith (2002) "The International Whaling Commission and the Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World".
• Burns, C.G. (2004) "The Berlin Initiative on Strengthening the Conservation Agenda of the International Whaling Commission: Toward a New Era for Cetaceans?".
• Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas (ICB) "Whales, a shared resource: First International Workshop on management and non-lethal use of Cetaceans" (Argentina, Sept. 2005) English | Spanish
• International Whaling Commission's 60th Annual Meeting (Santiago de Chile, June 2008)
• International Whaling Commission "Documents for the 59th Annual Meeting of the IWC and related meetings" (Anchorage, 28th - 31st May 2007)
• International Whaling Commission "Annotated Provisional Agenda of the 59th Annual Meeting of the IWC" (Anchorage, 28th - 31st May 2007)
• Leary, D (2008) "Briefing Note: The Australian Federal Court Judgement in the Japanese Whaling Case Human Society International Inc. V Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd. (2008) FCA".
• Ministère français des Affaires étrangères (2007) "Présentation et enjeux actuels de la CBI"
• New Zealand Government (2006) "The Conservation of Whales in the 21st Century".
• Holt, S. (2006) "Whales competing with humans?".
• Papastavrou, V. & Cooke, J. (2006) "Sustainable Use of Oceanic Wildlife: What lessons can be learned from commercial whaling?".
• Parmentier, R. (2006) "Harpooning a dinosaur".
• Third Millennium Foundation (2007) "Japan's Vote Consolidation Operation in the IWC".
• Truda Palazzo, J. (1999) "Whose Whales? Developing Countries and the Right to Use Whales by Non-Lethal Means".
• UNEP/CMS (2006) "Migratory Species and Climate Change: Impacts of a Changing Environment on Wild Animals".
• United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2006) " Protecting Whales - A Global Responsibility".
• WDCS (2005) "The RMS - A question of confidence?".
• WDCS (2004) "Troubled Waters - A review of the welfare implications of modern whaling activities".
• WDCS (2007) "The impacts of climate change on marine mammals: early signs of significant problems".
• WWF (June 2005) "Report: Science, profit and politics: Scientific Whaling in the 21st Century"
• WWF (June 2006) "WWF Position on Whaling and the IWC".
• WWF (June 2006) "International Governance of the Conservation and Management of Whales".
• WWF (March 2007) "How is "Ecosystem Based Management" Defined in Global Environmental Agreements?".

Links

International Whaling Commission (IWC)
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
IUCN - World Conservation Union Species Programme
IUCN - World Conservation Union Marine Programme
Year of the Dolphin 2007

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
Greenpeace
Humane Society
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
Institute of Cetacean Research
Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas (Whale Conservation Institute, Argentina)
High North Alliance
Japan Whaling Association
Krill Count!
Ocean Alliance
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)
Whaling Library
Wildlife Committee, American Branch of the International Law Association
World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

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