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Sea Shepherd Successful in Fending Off Illegal Japanese Whaling Fleet

The whaling fleet Japan sends out every year to carry out “scientific research” in the South Pacific Ocean was supposed to begin its illegal operations for 2012 in waters southwest of Australia. The plan failed when the three ships operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society discovered the fleet. ...

23 January 2012
05:31 GMT

Sea Shepherd Activists Injured During Anti-Whaling Operation

The anti-whaling operations developed by Sea Shepherd activities have recently taken a dangerous turn. Three of the crew members boarded on Steve Irwin vessel suffered minor injuries while trying to deal with the Japanese whale hunters. The three volunteers are the first victims recorded during this hunt season. The...

18 January 2012
09:30 GMT

Daytona Car Race Helps Vulnerable Dolphins

Sea Shepherd activists are not the only ones concerned about the fate of vulnerable dolphins. Leilani Munter, a well-known professional race car driver, has recently announced her eagerness to drive a customized car inspired by the Cove documentary, an Academy-Award winning production revealing Japan's dolphin...

6 January 2012
08:18 GMT

Sea Shepherd Volunteer Arrested by Japanese Police

The quest to protect the fate of vulnerable dolphins has taken a bizarre turn in Japan. A Sea Shepherd volunteer has been recently arrested after trying to capture the transfer of a dolphin on camera, in Taiji. Erwin Vermeulen, actively involved in the Cove Guardians project, was charged with assault late last year,...

6 January 2012
07:25 GMT

US Expresses Regret Over Continued Japanese Whaling

Under a UN moratorium, commercial whaling is forbidden around the world. However, governments such as those in Japan, Iceland and Norway disregard the rule by claiming they are harvesting whales for scientific research. Now, the United States expresses regret that Japan decided to hunt whales this year as well. T...

14 October 2011
09:57 GMT

Sea Shepherd Concludes Operation 'No Compromise'

Officials with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) announce that Operation 'No Compromise' – this year's effort to stop the illegal Japanese whaling fleet from carrying out its mission in Antarctic waters – is officially over. According to reports, this was the most successful camp...

7 March 2011
05:45 GMT

Japanese Whalers on the Run from Sea Shepherd

The latest report from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) shows that the Japanese whaling fleet, which is conducting illegal operations in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, is on the run.After being discovered about five days ago, the Nisshin Maru factory ship and the Yushin Maru No. 3 harpoon vessel are ...

14 February 2011
05:06 GMT

Sea Shepherd Gets 1 Million Euro Donation

On February 9, the Dutch Postcode Lottery in the Netherlands awarded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) with a check for 1 million euros ($ 1.35 million). The contribution is nearly double than what the Lottery gave the activist organization in 2010.The check was granted the same day the SSCS ship Goji...

14 February 2011
04:46 GMT

Gojira Finds Japanese Whale Factory Ship in Antarctica

Yesterday, February 9, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) ship Gojira found the Japanese factory ship in charge of processing the whales caught by three harpoon vessels operating illegally in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.With the Steve Irwin in New Zealand for refueling and resupply, and with the Bob ...

10 February 2011
06:27 GMT

Steve Irwin Heads Back to Chase Japanese Whalers

After spending only a brief period of time refueling and loading supplies, the flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), the Steve Irwin, is now back on the road, heading towards the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to track down the Japanese whaling fleet. Captain Paul Watson, the leader of the SSCS an...

9 February 2011
05:05 GMT

Japanese Whalers Attack Sea Shepherd Vessel

Captain Locky MacLean of the MV Gojira – one of the three vessels the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) operates in the Southern Ocean – narrowly steered his boat and crew to safety today, after a Japanese whaling ship turned on him, bow first. The Yushin Maru No. 3, one of the three harpoon ships ...

4 February 2011
06:04 GMT

SSCS Ship Steve Irwin Heads to New Zealand for Fuel

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) ship Steve Irwin has just broken off its trace of the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, and is currently set on a course for Wellington, New Zealand. The vessel has little fuel left, but will return to Antarctica soon. Despite being on top of things in the Sout...

28 January 2011
04:55 GMT

Sea Shepherd Finds Japanese Factory Whaling Ship

The three vessels the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) operates in the frozen waters of the Antarctic have been searching for the factory ship of the Japanese whaling fleet for more than 26 days, and their insistence paid off. The ship was spotted today at 1800 hours AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).Th...

25 January 2011
04:50 GMT

Sea Shepherd Reaches Half of Antarctic Campaign

Officials with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) announce that the conservationist group has reached the half of its 2011 Operation No Compromise. Its main objective is to prevent the Japanese whaling fleet from conducting its illegal operations in the waters around Antarctica. Sunday marked the 54th d...

24 January 2011
02:29 GMT

Sea Shepherd Denies Whalers Access to Fuel Ship

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) ships Gojira and Steve Irwin intercepted a fuel tanker headed towards the illegal Japanese whaling fleet, in order to refuel it, and stopped it in its tracks. The tanker, called Sun Laurel, was going to transfer heavy oil to the four Japanese vessels below the 60 degree so...

13 January 2011
06:47 GMT

Sea Shepherd Requests Assistance from Greenpeace

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) has issues an official call for assistance to the Greenpeace Foundation, for stopping the illegal Japanese whaling currently going on in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.SSCS is requesting that Greenpeace send one of its two available vessels to Antarctic waters, so as t...

12 January 2011
03:31 GMT

Sea Shepherd Harasses Japanese Whaling Fleet

The three ships of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) fleet are keeping the illegal Japanese whaling fleet in check in the waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Two of the harpoon ships the Asian nations deployed have not captured a single whale thus far. SSCS is conducting Operation No Compromi...

8 January 2011
06:37 GMT

Sea Shepherd Confronts Japanese Whaling Fleet

For the first time this whaling season, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) and the Japanese whaling fleet have crossed paths in the frozen, ice-laden waters of the Antarctic. Three Sea Shepherd vessels went up against three Japanese harpoon ships and one factory ship. Japan is currently conducting illegal w...

3 January 2011
09:41 GMT

Australia Calls Japan to Court Over Whaling

Japanese officials this week received the official notice that Australia is bringing the Asian nation to the International Court of Justice over its whaling actions in the Southern Ocean. Tensions have existed between the two countries for many years, with Australia protesting the fact that Japan is hunting in natura...

1 June 2010
09:55 GMT

Whaling Activist Boards Japanese Ship

Activist Pete Bethune, from New Zealand, boarded a Japanese whaling ship on Monday, to make a citizen's arrest on the captain. The reason for this action was that Bethune's powerboat, named Ady Gil, was sunken by a whaling ship last month, as it was carrying Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) activis...

15 February 2010
02:54 GMT

Japanese Whaling Ship Rams, Sinks Activists' Boat

Activists from the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) announce that one of their boats patrolling the Antarctic Ocean has been rammed by a Japanese whaling ship. The group was using the Ady Gil, an alternative fuel-powered, wave-piercing, high-tech trimaran, when a whaling ship, from...

6 January 2010
10:54 GMT

Whaling Talks Have Failed This Year as Well

Despite hopes in this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting to resolve the most pressing issues in the area at this point, little progress seems to have been actually made. Talks have now come to a standstill, as discussions between pro- and anti-whaling nations find no resolve. Nations such as I...

11 May 2009
02:58 GMT

The Japanese Fleet Didn't Complete Its Whaling Target

The Japanese whaling fleet, which departed for its Antarctic hunting grounds in secrecy last year, has recently returned to port in shame, having only been able to capture little over a half its whale target of 950 minke whales and 50 humpbacks. Largely thanks to the efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (...

13 April 2009
04:16 GMT

Sea Shepherd Receives Bomb Threat

On March 2nd, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) found again its ship surrounded by police officers. But this time around, it wasn't to illegally confiscate video materials of their encounters with the Japanese whaling fleet, like it had happened a few weeks back, but to protect the five members of the...

4 March 2009
05:15 GMT

Sea Shepherd Collides with Japanese Whaler

The hard-line anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd got into another confrontation with the Japanese fleet on February 6th, as its flagship, the Steve Irwin, collided with the whaling vessel Yushin Maru #2 in the freezing waters of Antarctica. The collision occurred when the group was attempting to position its ship in suc...

6 February 2009
04:08 GMT

Iceland Reassesses Its Whaling Decision

The new government that has taken control of the country only this week seems a bit more reasonable than its predecessors, activists say, after it has announced that it will carefully revise the whaling policy extension passed on by the other rulers last week. Under the regulation, Iceland was to continue hunting the...

4 February 2009
03:19 GMT

Japan Uses Acoustic Weapons Against Sea Shepherd

Activists from the Sea Shepherd environmental anti-whaling group are under intense pressure from the Japanese whaling fleet to discontinue their bid to stop them, Paul Watson, the leader of the group and the captain of its flagship, the Steve Irwin, says. He reveals that his ship managed to catch up with the whalers ...

3 February 2009
02:01 GMT

Iceland Increases Its Hunting Quota for Endangered Fin Whales

The North-Atlantic nation recently announced that it would again expand its self-assigned yearly quota of fin whales to approximately 150 over the next five years, even tough authorities in the country are perfectly aware of the fact that the culling of whales is expressly prohibited in international treaties. The mo...

30 January 2009
07:09 GMT

Japan to Sign Secret Whaling Deal

Recent information indicates the fact that Japan is currently engaged in obtaining a new deal of whaling, and that it's trying to persuade the six nations that make up the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to allow it to continue its bogus “scientific” whaling program that claims the lives of mo...

27 January 2009
06:27 GMT

Sea Shepherd Offers to End Violent Protests

The hard-line anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd announced on Wednesday that it was ready to renounce its violent actions in the freezing waters of Antarctica this season, if the governments of Australia or New Zealand filed a case against Japan for illegal whaling, and asked for the termination of the country's ye...

21 January 2009
03:18 GMT

Sea Shepherd Docks in Tasmania

Hard-line environmental group Sea Shepherd announced on Saturday that its fleet's flagship, the Steve Irwin, had docked safely in Hobart, the capital of the island-state of Tasmania. Paul Watson, captain of the ship and leader of the group, told Reuters that the ship would most likely be on its way next week, ar...

17 January 2009
07:14 GMT

Australia Hosts Sea Shepherd, Despite Japan's Requests

In a predictable move, Australia thoroughly dismissed Japan's requests of not allowing Steve Irwin, the flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, to dock for refueling in any of the island nation's ports. The ship has been engaged in the pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet since the beginning of ...

9 January 2009
02:57 GMT

Sea Shepherd Leaves Whaling Fleet Chase to Refuel

According to a communicate on Sea Shepherd's website, its flagship, the Steve Irwin, will return to Australia, in a yet undisclosed port, to refuel before continuing its chase of the Japanese whaling fleet, which continues to break international rules and hunt whales, although that is strictly forbidden worldwid...

5 January 2009
06:59 GMT

Sea Shepherd Covers Japanese Whaling Ship in Rancid Butter

An official communicate on Sea Shepherd's website announces that the organization's flagship, the Steve Irwin, collided with the Japanese industrial whaling ship Kaiko Maru, just 90 miles west of the New Zealand Zone. During the protest, the environmental activists threw 10 bottles containing rotten butter ...

29 December 2008
05:24 GMT

Sea Shepherd Forces Japanese Whaling Fleet Away from Whales

Sea Shepherd's announcement, published on the organization's web site, was greeted with satisfaction by many environmental groups, which applauded the tenacity of the group, which managed to once again chase the Japanese whaling fleet away from Australia's economic exclusion zone (EEZ), where hunting w...

28 December 2008
07:30 GMT

The Greenpeace vs Sea Shepherd Conflict Deepens

Although Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd are the two most renowned environmental organizations to battle against the Japanese government and seeking to save the whales in the Southern Ocean from being killed in the name of “science,” the means by which they accomplish this goal differ substantially. While GP ...

18 December 2008
05:27 GMT

Top Environmental Victories for 2008

Here are just a few of the most important achievements that environmental organizations managed to obtain or lead to during 2008. The list of successes is much longer, but the current row of accomplishments only highlights the most important or groundbreaking of them, as seen by Planetsave.   The Environmental P...

10 December 2008
05:46 GMT

Japan Says It Will Arrest Sea Shepherd Members This Year

Japanese officials recently announced that, if the environmental group Sea Shepherd interfered with its “scientific” harvesting of whales in the Southern Ocean, activists would be arrested and detained by authorities. The threat comes after a disastrous whaling season last year, when Japan's fleet wa...

10 December 2008
03:26 GMT


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