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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.
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23 January 2012
05:31 GMT |
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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 |
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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.
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14 October 2011
09:57 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Last week, the chair of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Cristian Maquieira, proposed a draft on a new international agreement aimed at regulating whaling across the world's oceans. The proposal was neither black nor white, and featured numerous compromises, on the part of both pro-whaling and anti-wh... |
29 April 2010
09:49 GMT |
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is so keen at promoting a compromise between nations opposing and countries favoring whaling that it appears to forget why it was set up in the first place. This was made obvious in a proposal that the organization released about five days ago, in which a number of new &ldqu... |
27 April 2010
03:03 GMT |
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Recently, the Japanese hunting fleet returned to its home port in Japan only to reveal the real extent of the damage that actions of the environmentalist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) inflicted on their planned annual catch. The ships only managed to secure about half of their quota, with the other h... |
13 April 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Representatives from New Zealand recently said that the country's position on the issue of whaling is that compromise from all sides needed to be accepted. They said that whaling nations should be allowed to hunt some whales each year, but that quotas shouldn't be as high as they were at the moment. Additio... |
1 April 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Whales, a class of animals that includes the largest creatures currently alive on our planet, are known in the scientific community for the ability they have to store carbon dioxide in their bodies. They apparently do so very efficiently, as a new study demonstrates that the last century of whaling has had a consider... |
26 February 2010
03:28 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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New Zealand and Australia announce that they will begin their own whaling programs, which will use non-lethal means to study cetaceans. The move is aimed directly against Japan, a country that seems unable to take a hint. The Asian nation poorly “disguises” its whale cull under a research program, and cla... |
5 January 2010
05:02 GMT |
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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 |
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A fisheries official in South Korea announced on Thursday that the country was considering resuming its commercial fishing practices, if the International Whaling Commission allowed Japan to continue its cull of minke whales in its territorial waters. The situation, which will be discussed in June at the next IWC mee... |
23 April 2009
10:32 GMT |
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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 |
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Iceland's proposed law of increasing its yearly quota of whales culled has sparked both environmental and diplomatic protests, as evidenced by the fact that, on Monday, diplomats from the United States and five other countries urged the newly-appointed government of the island nation to drop its intention, even ... |
17 February 2009
04:24 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) already placed some batches of whale meat on the market, as the first shipments arrived, and environmentalists say that there will be more to come. Whaling is strictly prohibited worldwide since 1986, as extensive culling led several species to extinction, but Japan ... |
1 December 2008
04:24 GMT |
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