Iceland will present a bill in February 2027 that could permanently ban whaling in its waters, a decision that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries to allow commercial whaling. Whaling in Iceland has been the subject of intense scrutiny since a

Fin whales, the primary target of Iceland’s whaling industry, are classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as vulnerable.

The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice