Sentences with phrase «japanese whalers»

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been battling hard against this barbarism by the Japanese whalers and sees this as simply one more battle to be fought.

More on Whaling Wars Japanese Whalers Suffer Injuries From Acid Whaling «Peace Talks» Stalled, Japan Won't Cut Its Hunt Quotas Australia Sets Deadline For Japan to End Whaling or Face Legal Action

Conflicts Have Been Getting More Intense Recently, the conflicts between Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd have been escalating.

Via:: BBC News: Japanese whalers hunt humpbacks (news website),:: The Independent: Save the whale.

Sea Shepard, fresh off of a long - running operation to hinder the activities of Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, have set their sights on protecting one of the ocean most threatened — yet frequently consumed — species of fish.

More on Whaling: Japanese Whalers Suffer Injuries From Acid Japan Kills Sea Shepherd Anti Whaling Ship.

The Japanese whalers are facing what could be their worst Antarctic whaling season in history and there is now every possibility they may return home to Japan empty handed.

Photograph: Barbara Veiga / AP The anti-whaling organisation Sea Shepherd will not contest the Southern Ocean against Japanese whalers this season, Captain Paul Watson has announced, accusing «hostile governments» in the US, Australia and New Zealand of acting «in league with Japan» against the protest vessel.

The new boat Gojira will support the other Sea Shepherd ships in chasing after the Japanese Whalers, including the Bob Barker and the Steve Irwin for the annual pursuit across Antarctica.

This time they will arrive in Antarctica before the Japanese whalers for the first time ever.

The consequences of this decision for Sea Shepherd and Watson and of the decision of the International Court of Justice for the Japanese whalers and the whales remain to be seen.

The Japanese whalers obviously sank Ady Gil on purpose, no one should be surprised about that, Japanese whalers and dolphin - killers are that kind of people it seems, but shooting Paul... nah... I do nt think so.

Halfway through a busy day of blogging on Japanese whalers and reporting on prospects for climate legislation and whether the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change needs to adjust its goals and increase openness and transparency, I broke away from my computer screen to step into the freezing rain and woods for a few minutes with our dog, Sara, and puppy, Oscar.

what are we doing letting Japanese whalers catch whales for meat to be eaten?

Australia threatened a bit of gunboat diplomacy, announcing that it would dispatch a patrol boat (the guns would have been removed, actually) and aircraft to shadow the Japanese whalers.

The fight over how humans should, and should not, interact with whales has moved from the waters off Antarctica, where environmental campaigners have been harassing Japanese whalers, to the White House.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Japanese whalers traded charges over the bullet that the conservation group says ended up in the Kevlar vest of Paul Watson, its founder, when the group's ship tangled with a whaling vessel on Friday.

Thank goodness for Greenpeace exposing the Japanese whalers» crimes against nature.

Japanese whalers are now in the Southern Ocean, targeting 333 minke whales for the research program; it calls for killing 333 minke whales annually for the next 12 years.

You work your butt off here — by the way, I'm giving you a bonus for the Japanese whaler account, good work, sales of whale meat in Tokyo are up six percent — and then you go home and stay up all night blogging with people who look like the Unabomber.

It's been a couple months since Captain Pete Bethune (then of Sea Shepherd) was given a suspended sentence by Japanese authorities for boarding the Japanese whaler which ran down the Ady Gil and attempting to deliver their captain a bill for the sunken ship.

Norway's new quota even edges out notorious Japanese whaler's allowance of 1280 whales.

Sea Shepherd shot to prominence as the futuristic trimaran Ady Gil pursued the Japanese whaler Shonan Maru 2 through Antarctic waters in January - spawning coverage such as the TV show Whale Wars.

Not exact matches

The conservation group is planning to prevent the Japanese whaling supply ship, the Sun Laurel, from delivering fuel and other supplies to both the whalers and their factory ship.

Allowing the Arctic to be used as a whaler highway to Japanese markets makes everyone complicit in the slaughter,» said Taryn Kiekow Heimer, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Watson, in claims rejected by the Japanese, last year claimed to have been shot at from a whaler.

«A theater in Nagoya said that it would show The Cove along with Whalers and the Sea, a documentary sympathetic to the Japanese whaling industry.

An update from the Southern Ocean and the activities of Sea Shepherd in harassing the Japanese whaling fleet: According to the latest reports Sea Shepherd's scout ship Gojira has intercepted a Panamanian - registered ship, the Sun Laurel, apparently en route to refuel whalers, and has prevented that happening.

The Sea Shepherd has located the Japanese whaling boats in the Southern Ocean and has clashed before the whalers have managed to slaughter any whales.

Whilst the Japanese are allowed by the International Whaling Commission to hunt for an annual quota of 945 whales for scientific purposes there has been intense global pressure to prevent the whalers from being able to fill their quota.