Faeroe Islands: Sea Shepherd Undercover Operation Exposes Cetacean Mass Slaughter click to enlarge On July 19, 2010, a pod of 236 pilot whales was ruthlessly slaughtered in the town of Klaksvik in the Danish Faeroe Islands. Sea Shepherd was able to document the slaughter through the efforts of an undercover operative who had been living among the locals in order to capture footage of “the grind.” The grind is a cruel method of whaling that involves stranding pods of cetaceans in coves before severing their spinal chords with knives.
Oil Spill Assaults Kahnawakes Shoreline Oil Spill Assaults Kahnawakes Shoreline With the horrific disaster in the Gulf it is easy to forget that oil spills are occurring practically every day somewhere in the worlds oceans.
Sea Shepherd Voted #1 Favorite Non-Profit on eBay We are happy to report that Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was voted #1 in the eBay favorite charity contest that ended on July 4th, 2010. Sea Shepherd has won a $15,000 grant to continue our efforts defending ocean wildlife worldwide. Thank you to everyone that participated! We also would like to thank eBay for supporting Non Profit Organizations.
Malta’s Traditional Fishermen Salute Sea Shepherd By Caroline Muscat June 28 2010 Fish2Fork Last week The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society released around 800 tuna from a cage headed to Malta’s fish farms, in a move condemned by the Maltese government. Bluefin tuna is “the country’s third most exported commodity”, according to the Finance Ministry, and it represents one per cent of the country’s GDP.
France Stands Up for the Whales PRESS RELEASE Jean-Louis Borloo calls for a strong and ambitious European Union stand on the Protection of Whales The International Whaling Commission (IWC), which is responsible for the conservation of whale species, is meeting in Agadir, Morocco, 21 to 25 June. Despite the moratorium on commercial whaling that was adopted in 1982, various types of whaling still take place: whaling under scientific permits, whaling “under objection” (commercial whaling) and aboriginal subsistence whaling.
Operation Blue Rage: Patrolling the Gulf of Sidra Day Eight of the Mediterranean Patrol Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Location: In the Gulf of Sidra, off the Coast of Libya Report by Captain Paul Watson The Sea Shepherd helicopter took off at dawn on a patrol as we move eastward through the Gulf of Sidra. We are actually pleasantly surprised to see little evidence of illegal fishing.
Operation Blue Rage: Crossing the Line of Death Day Six of the Mediterranean Patrol Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Location: In the Gulf of Sidra off the Coast of Libya Report by Captain Paul Watson Sea Shepherd has crossed the “Line of Death,” and we are now inside the waters claimed by Libya. The line of death in the Gulf of Sidra was the line Libyan President Gaddafi drew in the early seventies. The line is 33 degrees and 30 minutes North.
Operation Blue Rage- Day Two of the Mediterranean Patrol Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 Report from Captain Paul Watson, Steve Irwin It is not difficult to find boats towing net loads of bluefin to tuna fattening farms in Malta or Tunisia. Everywhere we look, we see these slow moving towing operations, and everywhere we go we see military escorts protecting and hopefully also observing the operations of these vessels. The early morning brought us the Turkish seiner Habib Reis III hauling a net, and later in the morning we came across the Tunisian seiner Beni Hassem
Democracy Now! Interviews Sea Shepherd’s Scott West One month after the BP oil spill, Democracy Now! speaks to Scott West of Sea Shepherd, a former top investigator at the Environmental Protection Agency who led an investigation of BP following a major oil pipeline leak in Alaska’s North Slope that spilled 250,000 gallons of oil on the Alaskan tundra. Before West finished his investigation, the Bush Justice Department reached a settlement with BP, and the oil company agreed to pay $20 million. At the same time, BP managed to avoid prosecution for the Texas City refinery explosion that killed fifteen workers by paying a $50 million settlement
