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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 16:22 UTC

Tag: militant environment group Sea Shepherd

  • Monday, March 28th 2016 - 05:55 UTC

    Japan announces it has harpooned 333 whales in Antarctic waters; conservationists outraged

    The statement confirmed that 333 whales, including a number of pregnant females, have been harpooned in Antarctic waters by the whalers since December.

    The Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR), the body behind the Japanese government’s whaling program, announced the return of the Japanese whaling fleet from its Antarctic operations. It is the first time that the Japanese whalers have returned to the Southern Ocean to slaughter whales since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled its whaling program to be illegal in 2014.

  • Sunday, March 29th 2015 - 09:47 UTC

    Sea Shepherd receives unexpected help in the 100-day chase of poacher

    For the past 100 days Sea Shepherd's flagship the Bob Barker has been chasing a poacher caught taking Patagonian toothfish from Australian territorial waters (Pic FB)

    One of Australia's biggest commercial fishing businesses has joined forces with militant environment group Sea Shepherd in an unheralded bid to stop pirate fishing boats. David Carter, from Perth-based Austral Fisheries, said the company was joining forces with Sea Shepherd because it wanted to lend moral support to the group's efforts to stamp out poaching.