The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has concluded that Japan’s whaling programme in the North Pacific is illegal.
Namely, Japan’s import and sale of sei whale products from its whaling programme in the North Pacific has been censured as illegal by CITES.
Sei whales are listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), meaning that international commercial trade in their...
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