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...
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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.
Anti-whaling activists Tuesday accused Japanese harpooners of using water cannons, loudspeakers and military-grade acoustic weapons as part of a "bizarre" high seas pursuit in the Antarctic. The Sea Shepherd animal rights group said a Japanese vessel closed in on their boat, the Steve Irwin, with "water cannons blazing" and activated long-range acoustical devices (LRADs) Tuesday afternoon. Paul Watson, captain of the Steve Irwin, said the Shonan Maru No.2 blasted his crew with warnings from... Read Full Story
Anti-whaling activists accused Japanese fishermen Friday of using a military-type sonic device and water cannon against a helicopter as risky skirmishes among Antarctic icebergs escalated. The Sea Shepherd animal rights group said the whalers used a Long Range Acoustical Device (LRAD) to repel the activists' helicopter, and then blasted the aircraft with water after it landed back on the Steve Irwin ship. "This was an extremely irresponsible thing to do," helicopter pilot Chris Aultman said... Read Full Story
Anti-whaling activists accused Japanese fishermen Friday of using a military-type sonic device and water cannon against a helicopter as risky skirmishes among Antarctic icebergs escalated. The Sea Shepherd animal rights group said the whalers used a Long Range Acoustical Device (LRAD) to repel the activists' helicopter, and then blasted the aircraft with water after it landed back on the Steve Irwin ship. "This was an extremely irresponsible thing to do," helicopter pilot Chris Aultman said... Read Full Story
Militant anti-whaling activists said they were dodging a Japanese surveillance ship in icebergs near Antarctica on Wednesday, following their first skirmish with whalers during the annual hunt. Paul Watson, who is leading a campaign to harass this season's hunt, said a ship loaded with Japanese security guards had been tailing his group since they left Western Australia on December 7. When they attempted to approach the Shonan Maru No.2 from behind an iceberg on Monday, Watson said the... Read Full Story
Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Tuesday asked his visiting Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd to rein in activists disrupting Japan's annual whale hunt, describing their actions as "sabotage." Japan's whaling fleet left for its annual Southern Ocean hunt in waters south of Australia last month. Japan uses a loophole in an international moratorium that allows killing whales for scientific research. Militant environmental activists of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have set out to... Read Full Story
Militant anti-whaling activists said they were dodging a Japanese surveillance ship in icebergs near Antarctica Wednesday, following their first skirmish with whalers for the season. Paul Watson, who is leading a campaign to harass the annual whaling hunt, said a heavily-barbed and armed ship loaded with Japanese security guards had been tailing them since they left Western Australia on December 7. When they attempted to approach the ship, Shonan Maru No.2, from behind an iceberg on Monday... Read Full Story
Australia's prime minister threatened legal action against Japan on Friday if it does not stop its research whaling program that kills up to 1,000 whales a year. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's comments came as the Australian Broadcasting Corp. quoted Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada as saying in an interview that Japan has no plans to halt its killing of whales in the Antarctic. "We don't accept Japan's premise for those terms of so-called scientific whaling," Rudd told Australia's... Read Full Story
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An international legal challenge to Japan's yearly whale hunt near Antarctica is being seriously considered by Australia, with the controversial cull set to begin in weeks, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday. Japan's new center-left government has promised to continue its annual scientific research whaling program and said on Friday there was no intention to review the policy, which has attracted widespread diplomatic and environmental condemnation. "We don't... Read Full Story
Militant protesters opposed to Japanese whaling left for the Southern Ocean Monday as New Zealand, Australia and The Netherlands urged them to avoid violent confrontations. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship Steve Irwin sailed from Fremantle in Western Australia to confront a fleet of Japanese whaling ships that left Japan on November 19 to harpoon hundreds of whales in Antarctic waters over coming months. Harrassment of the Japanese fleet last year led to a collision between the... Read Full Story
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