Activists seek cash to resume sea battle

Controversial activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has vowed to escalate its anti-whaling tactics after Japan resumed killing whales in the Southern Ocean.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4387234a26386.html

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Report: Japan resumes Antarctic whaling

TOKYO - Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the Japanese fleet, a news report said Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_on_re_as/antarctica_whaling

Sea Shepherds to refuel, re-engage Japanese whalers

The Steve Irwin is in port(at Victoria Dockyartds, Australia), awaiting refueling and a new crew of volunteers who are on their way to replace those who have served their tour with the Sea Shepherds. Paul Watson hopes to be readly to ehad back out in ten days to re-engage the whaling fleet.

http://dc.indymedia.org:80/newswire/display/142355/index.php

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Japan resumes Antarctic whale hunt

Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt off Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country's fleet.

Japan temporarily halted its hunt in mid-January after confrontations with both Greenpeace and the militant anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, Japanese Fisheries Agency official Jiro Hyuga said.

http://ukpress.google.com:80/article/ALeqM5jq7lS78z598VIFC5eErB4vIyRoRg

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Japan Resumes Whale Hunt
TOKYO -- Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country's fleet, a Japanese official said Wednesday.

Paul Watson, captain of Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin, has said he and his crew are "anxious" to return to the chase, and hope to complete refueling and resupplying in Melbourne, Australia, by next Tuesday.

Greenpeace has no plans to dispatch its vessel, the Esperanza, again this season, said Greenpeace Japan spokeswoman Kyoko Murakami. The group claims to have saved more than 100 whales during the two weeks it chased the Japanese fleet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...3.html?tid=informbox

Japanese whalers slaughter minke and calf in name of science

A SHOCKING new photograph shows the bloody reality of Japan's whale slaughter: the body of a minke whale and her baby, killed in the name of science.

The exclusive photo, taken last week, shows a minke mother being winched aboard a Japanese chaser vessel in the Southern Ocean.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23172496-952,00.html


PETITION TO STOP WHALING

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22836856-5014727,00.html

God when will this stop?..Lets hope the Steve Irwin gets back to them pretty quick to prevent anymore killings..

I too hope that the Steve Irwin returns soon, and gives them hell. Would love to see the Whaling ships evacuated and then sank to the bottom of the sea.

Hummm, not actually sure they deserve to be evacuated first...but yes the definitely need sinking..

Only because they are barbarians...and who wants to stoop to their level?

Research 'little more than a sham'

http://www.smh.com.au/news/whale-watch/research-little-...3/1195753310652.html

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Whaling Breaks Our Hearts
Roses are red, violets are blue, Japan’s whale hunt breaks our hearts – and there’s something we can do! It’s time for Japan to put their harpoons away for good. Let the whales swim free, just like they should.

The Japanese fleet is hunting down whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The same area that was designated to help whale populations recover after the devastating commercial whaling of the last century.

Take Action >> Tell the Japanese Embassy to have a heart and spare the whales. It’s time for Japan to recall their whaling fleet and end their illegal and unnecessary whaling operations once and for all.

http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start/182/

The Big Question: Have the Japanese seen off their opponents in the battle over whaling?
Because after several weeks of highly publicised clashes between the Japanese Antarctic whaling fleet and environmental activists, the green campaigners – Greenpeace and the more radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – have left the Southern Ocean, and the Japanese have this week resumed killing whales (in the guise of "scientific whaling" – a fiction believed by no one. An Australian customs vessel has witnessed five whales being harpooned and hauled on to a Japanese ship. The Japanese this season want to hunt up to 935 minke whales and 50 larger fin whales.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/the-big...-whaling-779104.html

20 years on and whales are under threat again

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/20-years-on-an...at-again-521370.html

Australian Government says evidence condemns whaling

AUSTRALIA now has "shocking" evidence to back a legal bid to stop Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean, the Federal Government says.

But Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus says the Government is still unsure who it could prosecute, when, and in what court.

The Government's evidence is a pile of "shocking images" of the annual whale hunt taken by crew aboard the armed Customs patrol vessel Oceanic Viking, such as the one above.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23172496-952,00.html

Australia releases grisly pictures of Japanese whaler slaying minke and calf
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia released grisly surveillance pictures of the slain carcasses of two whales being hauled aboard a ship, stepping up its campaign Thursday against Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett said the "distressing" pictures would help build global opposition to whaling.

http://www.startribune.com/world/15394451.html

Fury at 'sick' whaling pictures

Disturbing footage of a slaughtered baby minke being hauled up the slipway of a whaler alongside the carcass of its mother will be used against Japan in international legal action being planned by the Australian Government.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10491251

PETITION TO STOP WHALING

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22836856-5014727,00.html

AMERICANS AGAINST WHALING

Whales are still not safe! Since a global ban on whaling in 1985, Japan has continued to kill whales in the name of “scientific research.” Yet legitimate scientists agree: there’s no need to kill whales to research them. Harpooned with explosive tips and dragged onto whaling ships in a horribly cruel fashion, the whale meat from this “research” is sold in gourmet restaurants. And now Japan is dramatically increasing the slaughter: doubling the number of whales killed in an international marine mammal sanctuary.

Unless they are stopped now, Japan will launch a return to full-scale industrial whaling; the last of which once drove whales to the brink of extinction.

http://www.kintera.org/site/c.ejJTJbMSIwE/b.1578331/k.1..._Hunted_by_Japan.htm

Whaling protestors defiant over Japan embassy demo

LONDON (AFP) - Two anti-whaling protestors defended their actions Wednesday after staging a demonstration inside Japan's embassy in London, as they appeared in court over the incident

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080206/wl_uk_afp/britainj...2Syw7EVb.FAP3BgPLBIF

Pictures reveal truth about Japan's 'scientific' whaling

These pictures expose the gory reality of Japan's so-called "scientific" whale hunt in the Southern Ocean, with a slaughtered adult minke whale and calf being hauled on board a Japanese factory ship.


The release of the photos marks a significant shift in whaling politics, for they were taken not by the environmental activists who spent much of January harassing the whalers on their Antarctic hunt but by officials working for the Australian government.

They were put into the public domain by the eco-friendly administration of the new Labor premier, Kevin Rudd, accompanied by withering comments from Australian ministers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/picture...-whaling-779802.html

Sea Shepherd Getting Ready to Return to the Whale Wars

The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin is scheduled to depart from Melbourne on February 14th to return to the Southern Ocean to resume the pursuit and harassment of the illegally operated Japanese whaling fleet.

The Steve Irwin arrived in Melbourne on February 2nd. It will take approximately 12 days to undergo emergency repairs on the port engine, to refuel, re-provision and replace departing crew members.

http://papananook.livejournal.com:80/41286.html

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