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.
Operation Black Water in Cuba Triumphs in the Name of Sea Life Field report by Daniel Vairo, director, Instituto Sea Shepherd Brasil.
Press Conference with Freed Whale Warrior Captain Pete Bethune On the morning of Monday, 12 July 2010, at 10a.m., (NZ), Captain Pete Bethune will attend a press conference to discuss and answer questions about the events of the last 8 months that ultimately culminated in his return home from Japanese prison on Saturday. The conference will be held at: Hotel Grand Chancellor 1 Hobson Street Auckland City New Zealand Captain Bethune was incarcerated for boarding the ship that had rammed and destroyed his ship, and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society spent in excess of half a million U.S. dollars on Captain Bethunes defense in an attempt to mitigate his sentence
Whale Wars Nominated for Two Emmy Awards! Nominations for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards were recently announced, and Animals Planet’s series Whale Wars received 2 nominations! Whale Wars , one of Animal Planet’s top rated series, follows the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they wage a life-and-death battle to find and stop the illegal hunting of whales in the name of ‘research.’ Specifically, the episode Whale Wars–The Stuff of Nightmares, in which a whale is harpooned and is shown taking 23 agonizing minutes to drown, is competing against LIFE and The National Parks for the titles of Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming. The Emmy Awards will be broadcast live on Sunday August 29 at 8 p.m.
Whale Warrior “Captain Pete Bethune” Free to Return Home On January 6, 2010, Captain Hiroyuki Komura of the illegal Japanese whaling vessel the Shonan Maru #2 deliberately rammed and destroyed Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s vessel, the Ady Gil. Captain Komura almost killed six Sea Shepherd volunteer crewmembers and did not respond to the Ady Gil’s mayday distress signal. Japanese authorities refused to cooperate in investigations and declined requests by Australian and New Zealand maritime authorities to question Captain Komura.
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.
Sea Shepherd Acknowledges the Guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Captain Watson responds here to the comments made by the Dalia Lama at the end of his 11 day tour of Japan.
Maltese Prime Minister defends illegal tuna operation Speaking to the Maltese press today Dr Lawrence Gonzi, the Maltese Prime Minister, made the following statement: “The government can never ever tolerate a situation where Maltese fishermen going about their work according to local and international law are attacked and hindered.” Sea Shepherd’s Captain Watson addresses this statement here: Captain Paul Watson: “With all due respect Dr. Gonzi, these were not Maltese fishermen going about their business according to the law.
