Related International Agreements
Wildlife Research, Trade, Management, and Conservation
In addition to the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea, the following international conventions and commissions affect the preservation and management of whale populations. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) The IOC of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) was founded in 1960 on the basis of the recognition that … the oceans, covering some seventy percent of the earth’s surface, exert a profound influence on mankind and even on all forms of life on Earth… . In order to properly interpret the full value of the oceans to mankind, they must be studied from many points of…
