Dominica - "the Nature Island" - Supports Whaling

Dominica has rejected criticism that its vote on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was up for sale, after the prime minister returned from Japan and renewed his support for commercial whaling. Ironically, the Caribbean island markets itself as the "Nature Island", with whale watching being one of its attractions. As a response to the financial input from Japan, a British peer, Lord Ashcroft, has commissioned an unprecedented television advertising campaign which he hopes will persuade the inhabitants of Dominica and five other West Indies nations not to support Japan's plan to overturn the ban on commercial whale hunting. The campaign is being mounted in conjunction with the UK- and US-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)...