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 [...]

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 [...]

Sea Shepherd Heads Home As Whaling Season Comes To A Close

Cheers to the Sea Shepherd crew for another hardcore season on the open sea. Love and respect to some serious direct action heroes.

-from seashepherd.org
There are less than 10 days left in the Japanese whaling season, and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship, the Steve Irwin, has reached the limit of its fuel reserves.
“We have no alternative [...]

Minister likes idea to rename strait the Salish Sea

Map of the Salish Sea
Carolyn Heiman, Times Colonist
By George! There’s talk of renaming Strait of Georgia the Salish Sea.
A representative of the Chemainus First Nations this week put the idea to Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong, who thinks it’s an idea worth exploring.
“Quite honestly I like the sound of it,” de Jong said yesterday [...]

Sea Shepherd Crew Head South In Search Of Harpoons

-from http://www.seashepherd.org
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship, the Steve Irwin, has broken off its pursuit of the Nisshin Maru to focus on the harpoon vessels to the south.
At 1200 hours, Sea Shepherd changed course and began to head due south, as the Nisshin Maru continued westward. Contact was broken off with the Japanese factory ship at [...]

How Greenpeace Cashes In on the Suffering and Death of the Great Whales

The Other Whaling Industry
By Captain PAUL WATSON
On board the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin.
“It does not matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
– Dr. Patrick Moore, President of Greenpeace Canada 1981
As the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society struggles to borrow and raise enough funds to return to the Southern Ocean, we [...]