Protesters freed from Japanese ship

A JAPANESE whaling ship has freed two anti-whaling activists who boarded it two days ago and they will now rejoin their Antarctic campaign.

Foreign Affairs Minister Steven Smith has this morning confirmed that Australian Benjamin Potts and Briton Giles had been transferred to the Customs ship Oceanic Viking.

He said work was now under way to transfer them back to their protest ship, the Steve irwin.

Briton held on Japanese whale ship to be freed as protesters threaten commando raids

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/wor...8768&in_page_id=1811

Anti-whaling activists return to 'Steve Irwin'

Two anti-whaling activists held captive after boarding a Japanese whaling boat are on the way back to their own ship after being released.

Australian Benjamin Potts and Giles Lane from Britain are said to be in good health and good spirits.

http://www.abc.net.au:80/news/stories/2008/01/18/2141185.htm?section=justin

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They tried to throw me overboard, says anti-whaling activist

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23071056-2,00.html

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'They tied me to ship's mast and roughed me up': British activist held by Japanese whalers relives his ordeal

A British activist held on a Japanese whaling boat for two days has given a grim account of his ordeal.

Briton Giles Lane, 35, and Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, from anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, were held by Japanese whalers after boarding the harpoon boat Yushin Maru 2 on Tuesday.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk:80/news/article-23433088-...+Japanese/article.do

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Whalers return activists, chase resumes

Sea Shepherd activists have vowed to continue harassing whalers in the Southern Ocean after two detained crew members were returned from a Japanese hunting boat.

But the captain of the Sea Shepherd ship says it's unlikely that any of his charges will board one of the Japanese vessels again.

http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/jan/18/aap-whalers...vists-chase-resumes/

Sinker of ships once a rainbow warrior

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23075055-601,00.html

Benjamin Potts and Giles Lane maintain whale rage

BENJAMIN Potts and Giles Lane prepared to jump straight back into anti-whaling duty yesterday after a dramatic rescue enabled the pair to be returned to their ship - the Steve Irwin.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23073097-5001021,00.html

Japan whalers accuse Sea Shepard of 'terrorist attack'

The Japanese whaling fleet says it was attacked by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for the second time in the Southern Ocean.

http://www.abc.net.au:80/news/stories/2008/01/19/2142202.htm?section=justin

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Captain of protest vessel claims spy trawler is shadowing him

The Japanese government is thought to have sent a large ocean-going trawler into the Southern Ocean near Antarctica to track one of the environmental activist ships trying to stop a whale hunt.

Captain Paul Watson, on board the Sea Shepherd conservation society's vessel, the Steve Irwin, said yesterday by satellite phone that the drag trawler ***oyoshi Maru No 68 was shadowing his ship.

"It has no fishing gear on board and appears to have more electronic gear than normal for a fishing vessel. It is not part of the whaling fleet of seven ships. It is apparently reporting our position to the Japanese fleet."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/19/whaling.antarctica

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War of the Whales
Eco-warrior Paul Watson is engaged in a furious fight with both Japanese whalers and Greenpeace

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3216874.ece

PM - Activists sabotage propeller after crew members return

http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?h...nt/2007/s2141904.htm

Japan whalers say Australia should detain protesters

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Japanese whalers accused the Australian government on Saturday of ignoring international commitments and going easy on two activists who were returned after boarding a Japanese harpoon ship.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKSYD782820080119

Protesters lose the plot

IN early 1983, I left the Tasmanian town of Strahan to travel to the site of the controversial Franklin dam to talk with protesters about the most famous and successful anti-development protest in Australian history.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23077106-5001031,00.html

Activists hit whalers with 'stink bombs'
SYDNEY: A militant anti-whaling group yesterday said it attacked a Japanese whaling vessel with "stink bombs", frustrating the hunt, only an hour after two of its activists were freed from the harpoon boat.

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=206390&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30307

Whalers, activists prepare for next round at sea
'We will continue to intervene,' Sea Shepherd leader says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22756978/

Whalers angry at 'eco-terror' on the high seas

JAPANESE whalers have accused the Australian Government of supporting eco-terrorism by returning two Sea Shepherd activists to the protest group last week.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23086622-662,00.html

Saving whales not a joke

NO WHALES have been killed in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary for the past 10 days. If that's not whale conservation, I don't know what is.

In yesterday's The Daily Telegraph, Tory Maguire questions how much of what she terms a "boy's own adventure" in the Southern Ocean has to do with whale conservation. From a Greenpeace perspective, everything.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23085830-5001031,00.html

Activists clash with whalers

Environmentalists have again clashed with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters, with Greenpeace activists failing in a risky attempt to prevent the refuelling of the fleet's factory ship.

http://fairfield.yourguide.com.au:80/news/national/gene...whalers/1167107.html

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Fighting for whales

It is almost a rite of passage for primary school students to be slapped with a nickname.

Sometimes they are cruel, sometimes kind, and more often than not they are an extension of a child’s first or last name.

When Cotton Tree’s Chantal Henderson was a little girl growing up in the Victorian town of Sale, her nickname was much simpler than that.

The other kids would call her Dolph, short for dolphin
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/jan/21/fighting-whales/