Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute is outraged by the killing of a gray whale in the Strait of Juan de Fuca by members of the Makah Tribe, condemning it as an illegal, cruel, and callous act ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is disappointed with yesterday’s decision by federal regulators to issue a waiver of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to the Makah Tribe of ...

Last week, after my children were released from school for the year, my family and I hit the road for the Oregon Coast for a few days away from the Interstate 5 corridor. We played on the beach, ...

For the third time, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday the Makah Tribe must comply with more stringent environmental procedures before seeking to hunt gray whales -- a decision likely to mean ...

Makah Tribe’s quest to hunt another gray whale goes to court In 1999, the Makah Indian Tribe hunted a gray whale in the waters off Neah Bay. Two decades later, neither the emotions nor the debate have ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the ...

PORT ANGELES — The Makah Tribe has submitted a permit application to NOAA Fisheries that will allow it to hunt up to 25 eastern North Pacific gray whales over a 10-year period, starting with one ...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Two Makah tribal members who led a rogue gray whale hunt last September have been convicted of federal misdemeanor charges in Tacoma, Wash. U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Kelley Arnold ...

Recent public radio coverage about the Makah Tribe’s request to resume whaling pains me. It leaves me asking a simple question: Who speaks for the whale? The Makah people have a treaty right to hunt ...

This week there will be two public meetings on the Makah Tribe's request to resume gray whale hunting off the Olympic Peninsula. The first meeting is Monday night in Seattle. Then there's a second ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service has reopened and expanded the scope of public comment for an environmental study of the Makah Tribe's request to conduct whale hunting under its treaty rights.

"Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, ...