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March 08, 2012
The Japanese Whaling Fleet Leaves the Southern Ocean
Whale Sanctuary
The Japanese whaling fleet has left the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and they are heading home. “Once Captain Peter Hammerstedt and his crew on the Bob Barker closed in on the Nisshin Maru on March 5th, the whaling season was effectively over for the season,” said Captain Paul Watson on the Sea Shepherd flagship Steve Irwin recently returned and now berthed in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.
February 29, 2012
Hong Kong Airlines Bans Transport of Wild Animals In Response to Sea Shepherd Members’ Visit to the Airline’s Corporate Office
On February 28, 2012, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s UK Trustee David Scott received a response from Hong Kong Airlines concerning a letter he had sent denouncing the airlines transfer of five wild dolphins from Japan to Vietnam. The response stated that Hong Kong Airlines was taking the situation very seriously and was issuing a statement. The letter stated, “As a company committed to the preservation and protection of wildlife, Hong Kong Airlines has enforced an immediate ban on all such flights involving the carriage of protected species.”
January 29, 2012
The Canadian Seal Hunt is Dead! Long Live the Seals!
COMMENTARY BY CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON
“The Canadian seal slaughter is commercially dead and it will have no place in the 21st Century. This anachronistic, barbaric enterprise is being tossed into the dustbin of history where it belongs. Finally after a lifetime of struggle to end it, this obscene embarrassment is for all intents and purposes – dead.“
Japanese Whaling Fleet’s Inglorious Retreat Draws Criticism
Japan’s decision to bring its whaling fleet home from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary last month brought shouts of victory from anti-whaling campaigners. But back home in Japan, there are those who aren’t so happy.
“Masayuki Komatsu, former Japanese delegate to the International Whaling Commission, told AM radio today that he thought Japan’s early pull-out was a spineless decision.”
Where does all the water go…
Japanese whaling culture??
Small-scale hunts of past don’t justify trips into Australia’s backyard
If Australia’s Torres Strait Islanders started hunting dugong around Okinawa in the name of “tradition,” the absurdity of cultural arguments supporting Japan’s whaling in the Southern Ocean would become quickly apparent.
Temporary Victory
For the rabbits of Monash University
This means that there is nothing to stop the university resuming these experiments again in a few years, or using other animals in similar experiments. Monash has even indicated that there are other live animal experiments planned for this year.
It took two hundred million years for the planet to produce its oil reserves, and we have consumed almost all of it in less that two centuries (A Crude Awakening)
Earthlings, make the connection (I did)
A vegan driving a Hummer would be contributing less greenhouse gas carbon emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle (Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd)
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