From gizmodo.com
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Sea Shepherd
Follow anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit, self-proclaimed policing organization that claims to undertake campaigns guided by the United Nations World Charter for Nature (1982) and... [more]
Follow anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit, self-proclaimed policing organization that claims to undertake campaigns guided by the United Nations World Charter for Nature (1982) and other statutary laws protecting marine species and environments.
Last we heard from Earthrace, the super sleek 78-ft. power boat that runs on its captain's fat, it was circumnavigating the globe. Today, the ship has a new Batman paint job and a new mission: Hunting whalers. Specifically Japanese whalers. The same Japanese whalers who were made famous by the camera-happy efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. You know, the group whose anti-whaling, conservationist exploits on the high seas can be...
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Earthrace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's new high-tech anti-whaling powerboat, rests in Auckland Harbor head of its imminent deployment for Perth, and then the Southern Ocean. The 24-meter trimaran has paint which deflects radar waves, so can approach Japanese whaling vessels almost unseen.
From digg.com
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- Earthrace super-trimaran gets stealth paint job (slashgear.com)
That is not Batman's boat but rather Earthrace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ultraslick bio-diesel-powered anti-whaling speedboat. It's 80-feet long and very stealthy. Next month, it will head out to the seas around Japan to, er, protest the country's whaling industry. Life magazine has photos of Earthrace currently docked in Auckland, New Zealand. (Click image to see full photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images.) "Superbad Anti-Whaling...
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From boingboing.net
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PAUL WATSONAS SEEN IN:'South Park'AS PLAYED BY:Matt Stone or Trey Parker, beats me......The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Paul Watson talked to Jennifer Vogel of Mother Jones magazine about taking a bullet from the Japanese, and 'Whale Wars', his new series on Animal Planet.MJ: Are you willing to sacrifice your life to save a single whale?PW: We do that all the time. The one thing we won't do is injure anybody or take their life. Despite...
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From toobworld.blogspot.com
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On Monday the Japanese head of state made a diplomatic but earnest plea for Netherlands’ authorities to take punitive measures against a Dutch-registered sea vessel used by the radical environmentalist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to harass Japanese whaling ships in the waters of the
From redorbit.com
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- Quotes of the day (blogs.nature.com)
- Sea Shepherd adds speed to counter Japanese whalers | Brand X ... (blogsearch.google.com)
- Japan urges Netherlands to handle whaling activists (search.msn.com)
Oh, South Park. So irreverent, yet poignant! Consider last night's Whale Wars parody, in which Stan takes Captain Paul Watson's place in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and steps up the conservationists' campaign in a way only possible through cartoon violence. (Yes, there were explosions.)
Amidst the world's rightful outcry at the injustice of whaling, Stan fights the good fight—protecting whales from senseless slaughter—and along...
From blog.peta.org
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- Whale wars saga begins with Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson under ... (news.google.com)
At a fundraising event in Los Angeles on Saturday, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society unveiled their newest “ocean defense” vessel: the Ady Gil. Formerly known as Earthrace, the ship was renamed to honor the benefactor that helped the anti-whaling group acquire the ship.
From digg.com
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- Talk:Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (en.wikipedia.org)
