05
Mar
Assassin’s Creed 4 slammed by PETA for whaling element
Recently announced pirate-themed videogame called ‘disgraceful’ by the animal rights organization for glorifying whale hunts.
05
Mar
Assassin’s Creed 4 slammed by PETA for whaling element
Recently announced pirate-themed videogame called ‘disgraceful’ by the animal rights organization for glorifying whale hunts.
27
Feb
31
Aug
Fugitive whale campaigner vows to stop Japan hunt
Paul Watson vowed to spearhead Sea Shepherd’s next campaign against Japan’s annual whale hunt, pledging to prevent a single animal being killed. Watson has an Interpol arrest warrant out on him after skipping bail in Germany in July on charges stemming from a high-seas confrontation over shark finning in 2002 and he has not been seen since.
14
May
Sea Shepherd leader Paul Watson arrested in Germany
Watson, a Canadian national, is in a German jail after being detained on charges stemming from a confrontation over shark finning in 2002.
09
Mar
Saboteurs blamed as Japan whale catch falls short
Japan’s Antarctic whaling fleet has killed less than a third of the animals it planned to because of sabotage by activists, Tokyo said. Whalers killed 266 minke whales and one fin whale, the agency said, well below the approximately 900 they had been aiming for when they left Japan in December.
18
Jan
Sea Shepherd says 3 members injured by Japanese whalers
The anti-whaling demonstrators were injured after Japanese crew members used grappling hooks and bamboo poles against them in a high-seas clash.
09
Jan
Australian anti-whaling activists could face Tokyo charges
Three men from the Forest Rescue Australia group boarded a Japanese whaling ship to prevent it from tailing the Sea Shepherd’s Steve Irwin ship.
04
Jan
Sea Shepherd finds Japanese harpoon ship
The Japanese vessel still had its harpoon covered and was therefore unlikely to have started killing any whales yet.
03
Jan
Anti-whaling drones rock the boat
As Sea Shepherd’s new aerial drones take ‘whale wars’ into the wild blue yonder, could they foreshadow the future of vigilante conservation?
29
Dec
Huge waves damage anti-whaling boat
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said the Brigitte Bardot’s hull split when it was struck by a ‘rogue wave’ as it tailed the Japanese factory ship.
