"UNITED AGAINST WHALING"
World Wildlife Fund rejects David Day's allegations that it is ready to concede measures which could allow a resumption of commercial whaling. WWF is totally committed to maintaining the moratorium, which it was instrumental in securing, and is vigorously lobbying for a Southern Ocean Sanctuary as extra protection for whales.

The issue is how to achieves these objectives within the International Whaling Commission, originally established to "regulate" whaling and still the only international agency mandated to conserve whale. Pro-whaling countries must be denied any excuse to leave the IWC, which could lead to the worst possible scenarios of unsustainable "cowboy" whaling without any international control. We must prevent this happening at all costs.

WWF opposes the Revised Management Procedure (RMP), the scientific model for calculating whale quotas, but believes the only option available now is to defuse the RMP by having it put to one side.

The best policy for the whale is to leave them in peace to recover from the barbaric slaughter. This is what WWF is striving to achieve.

(Dr. Robin Pellew, Director, WWF UK, letter to the editor, DAILY MAIL, 19.05.94)