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.
The Steve Irwin Visits Italy The Steve Irwin arrived today in La Spezia, Italy for a brief visit and a fund-raising event. The crew were greeted with a huge welcoming banner. This marks the first time that a Sea Shepherd ship has docked in Italy.
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.
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 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.
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.
Vote Now for Sea Shepherd in eBay’s Contest! Vote for Sea Shepherd as your favorite non-profit on eBay and help us win $15,000! We are currently in 2 nd place and only need 61 votes to take the lead. Contest ends July 4th.
Sea Shepherd at Deepwater Ground Zero BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig - 1 July 2010 by Steve Roest CEO Sea Shepherd Everyone is wondering whether BP and the US government are doing enough to protect and clean up the Gulf of Mexico from the horrendous spill originating at the Deepwater Horizon oilrig. After 10 hours of flying over the disaster area, we can tell you that they are not. There was a brief break in the heavy rains and winds from Hurricane Alex over New Orleans today, and during that pause Sea Shepherd flew out to see for themselves how bad the disaster zone has become and what assets have been deployed by BP to fix the gushing oil spill
Operation Gulf Rescue Ramps Up The problem : On the morning of April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit exploded, killing 11 people. On the afternoon of April 22, a large oil slick began to spread from the former rig site, and today this disaster is the largest offshore spill in U.S.
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.
