Tag: whaling

Japanese leader Shinzo Abe’s decision to resume Japan’s annual arctic whale hunt has Australian environmentalists hot under the collar.

Japan is set to tell the UN’s top court that its whaling program — opposed by Australia — is “carefully conceived and planned and sustainable”.

Sea Shepherd’s confrontation with Japanese whalers has escalated in the Southern Ocean with more collisions reported.

Sea Shepherd has released video footage taken by its activists yesterday allegedly showing the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru ramming into the SS fleet.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith has ruled out sending a navy ship to the clash between Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd protesters in Antarctic waters and says the government will wait for a ruling from the International Court of Justice over whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Japanese Fisheries have released a statement saying they have suspended whaling in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica following a collision with Sea Shepherd vessels.

The Sea Shepherd activist group have alleged their ship the Bob Barker has been seriously damaged in a conflict with Japanese whalers attempting to refuel in the Southern Ocean near an Australian station in Antarctica.

The Australian Government has welcomed confirmation from South Korea that it will not go ahead with a lethal “scientific” whaling program.

Former Greens leader Bob Brown has been appointed director of anti-whaling society Sea Shepherd after legal action forces the resignation of the group’s founder Paul Watson.

The plan revealed at the International Whaling Commission talks in Panama has raised the ire of animal welfare groups and prompted calls by the Australian Greens and the coalition for swift diplomatic action.

The three Australian activists being held on a Japanese whaling security vessel are on a hunger strike, with an environmental group saying this was the plan all along.

Conservation group Sea Shepherd has reached one of its ships that became stranded after a big wave cracked its hull.