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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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