Japanese Whalers Using Humpbacks To Blackmail the International Whaling Commission

By: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
July 4, 2008 - “Let us kill the Piked and Fin whales or the Humpbacks will die,” is the message from Joji Morishita of the Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research.
Once again the Japanese whalers are threatening to slaughter Humpbacks unless they get permission to slaughter a thousand Piked whales and fifty [...]

Brucellosis focus shifts from bison to elk

By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — Government agencies killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone National Park over the last two decades — the grisly result of efforts to contain a serious livestock disease carried by the animals.
But the crosshairs are shifting to a new target, elk, as the disease infects cattle in [...]

Sea Shepherd crew to face trial next spring

-from HalifaxChronicle Herald
SYDNEY — A two-week block of court time has been set aside next spring for the trial of two European men on charges linked to this year’s Canadian seal hunt.
Alexander Cornelissen, 40, of Amsterdam and Peter Hammarstedt, 23, of Sweden were the captain and first officer aboard the anti-sealing vessel Farley Mowat when [...]

Seal hunt protesters urge EU ban

BRUSSELS (AFP) — Hundreds of anti-seal hunt demonstrators held a protest outside European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, demanding that the 27-nation bloc impose a total ban on seal products from Canada and elsewhere.
The protest outside the European Commission and European Council buildings in central Brussels, was held on the day France assumed the [...]

Anti-sealing activists enter not guilty pleas

Europeans deny Farley Mowat was within half-mile of sealers
By TERA CAMUS Nova Scotia News
SYDNEY — Two European men were not in court Wednesday but their Sydney lawyer entered not guilty pleas on their behalf to charges laid during this year’s seal hunt.
Capt. Alexander Cornelissen, 40, of Amsterdam and first officer Peter Hammarstedt, 23, of Sweden, [...]

IWC nations may consider whaling

Agence France-Presse
SANTIAGO — The International Whaling Commission, a treaty organization grouping 80 countries, is to meet next week in Chile. It may debate a resumption of commercial whale-hunting. If the IWC lifts its 12-year ban on whaling, it will likely deepen divisions between member states opposed to the hunts and those — chiefly Iceland, Japan [...]

Activist Guilty of ‘Conspiracy’ for Website: SHAC 7 all over again!

Yet another non-violent protestor convicted with ever having committed a crime.
Today was the first time I’d ever heard of Stop Sequanni Animal testing.
People who know me personally, or read this blog on a regular basis, have no doubt by now heard me mention the SHAC 7 many times. Not because I consider myself an animal [...]

Release of captured bison back into Yellowstone signals short repreive from harrassment and slaughter

-By Cory Hatch Jackson Hole, Wyoming News
Wildlife managers released roughly 300 Yellowstone bison back into the park Monday morning after roughly a month of captivity near the park’s North Entrance.
The bison include about 80 calves that were born at the Stephens Creek Bison Capture Facility. Twelve bison died at the facility, including several calves, most [...]

Wild Bison Defence Update May

* Buffalo Advocates Rally in Helena
With banners and tombstones in hand, and strong hearts that have withstood a season of tremendous buffalo slaughter, Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers trekked to Montana’s capitol, Helena, on Wednesday, May 15, for a rally to draw attention to Montana Governor Schweitzer’s role in the shameful slaughter of America’s last wild [...]

Wild Bison Defence Update For May 8

-from Buffalo Field Campaign
* Update from the Field
The road through Yellowstone is now open to cars. In years past, during this season, on a drive through the park you would be hard pressed not to see several hundred buffalo and many newborn calves. This season, people who have taken this drive have felt as if [...]