Australian Marine Conservation Society

AMCS helped spearhead this successful campaign in the 1980s, establishing a global ban on whaling. We remain vigilant on current threats to whales in Australia's waters. Since 2006, AMCS Director Darren Kindleysides has played a significant role to advocate international legal action against Japanese whaling. AMCS has been there from the inception of the plan to instigate international legal action against the Japanese whalers. Working with governments, lawyers and scientists we convinced our leaders to take Japan to international courts, which ruled Japan's whaling broke international law and must stop.