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• Japanese whaling is bad business

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  ‘Greenpeace has been fighting Japanese whaling for more than three decades, from the waters of the Southern Ocean to the online world to the courts of Japan.’ The organization ‘first brought whaling to the world’s attention in 1975 when activists put their own lives on the line by navigating small inflatable ...
  19 hours ago

• We Are All Shipmates—Moby Dick

  
  Texas Liberal — Authority: 561
  Above you see Orson Welles in his ship pulpit in the 1956 adaptation of  Moby Dick . I’d enjoy having this pulpit in my home. I’d love to give a sermon from that pulpit. Even better might be that pulpit hooked up to the back of a truck. I bet could draw some crowds. What would I say? I’m sure I would come ...
  2 days ago

• Historical Image of the Day

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 483
  Sperm whaling scene painted by unknown artist of the 1830s.
  3 days ago

• Whaling: While the commissioners debate, the whalers "carry on slaughtering whales with impunity"

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 443
  By Marcela Valente - IPS Republished permission Inter Press Service (IPS )copyright Inter Press Service (IPS)http://www.ipsnewsasia.net/ and http://www.ipsnews.net/ Govt Silence Dooms Whales to Slaughter BUENOS AIRES, Nov 24 (IPS) - Latin American governments are considering a bloc response to the Japanese whaling ...
  5 days ago

• DSN’s 7 Simple Rules for Marine Conservation Expedition Safety

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 493
  Enter the Ady Gil (formerly the Earthrace).No, this isn’t the Knight Rider of the harbor. This batmobile of conservation is now the newest member of the  Sea Shepherd team, also known as Team Sink-A-Boat-For-Whales. From Sea Shepherd’s press office:Due to its speed capabilities, up to 50 knots, Captain Paul ...
  6 days ago

• Japan embarks on annual whale hunt--can Sea Shepherd be far behind?

  
  Zichi Lorentz Artosphere — Authority: 139
  Whaling ships from Japan left today for Antarctic waters on an annual five-month voyage in pursuit of about 1,000 minke whales and a small number of endangered fin whales. The seasonal hunts, during the Antarctic summer, are highly controversial. Theyre carried out in the name of research but the meat is sold ...
  1 week ago

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  PureLandMountain.com — Authority: 125
  THE END OF JAPANESE WHALING?YIPPEEE!As the new J government has been reviewing every budgetary nook and cranny for ingrained spending boondoggles, they have discovered that whaling is one of the doggliest, having basically been subsidized into zombie existence for decades now. Sordidly unsurprising details here. "A ...
  1 week ago

• 40 Foot Crocodile Was Real; Moby Dick Was Real; Tom Horn Was Real

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 130
  Sereno Compares Dogcroc with Supercroc Alligators and Crocodiles strike fear in people.  Can you imagine a 40 foot “SuperCroc?”     The Supercroc still holds the title as the largest known crocodile to roam the earth but who knows if there was a bigger one?   After all, University of ...
  1 week ago

• Endangered Species Vs Cultural Tradition

  
  Colleen Anderson — Authority: 420
  Our world is in trouble in a lot of ways and anyone, whether an individual or a government, who denies this is practicing the head in the sand technique. Overfishing has caused the closing of fisheries in numerous countries, caribou herds are threatened, whales are on the endangered list , rhinos and tigers and other ...
  1 week ago

• Japan resumes whale hunting, claims scientific motive

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 494
  Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, ran his campaign partially on the promise to fight the waste of taxpayer money. Yet, a fleet of highly controversial, taxpayer-funded whaling ships has left port, headed toward Antarctica to initiate this year’s hunt – and Greenpeace is determined to remind Hatoyama of ...
  1 week ago

• Whaling operation in trouble

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Peter Alford; 20/11/09The Japanese whaling fleet departed for its annual Antarctic whale hunt yesterday, leaving senior officials to face mounting critical scrutiny of their taxpayer-propped operation. The fleet left from Innoshima yesterday morning rather than its Shimonoseki home port, 250km west, apparently to ...
  1 week ago

• Final voyage for Japan’s whaling fleet? Fingers crossed!

  
  Greenpeace Canada weblogs — Authority: 122
  Can it really be that over 20 years after the global ban on commercial whaling went into effect the Japanese fleet has once again set sail to the Southern ocean in pursuit of almost 1000 minke and fin whales? It’s been well over a decade since these now whaling grounds were designated a whale sanctuary, but the only ...
  1 week ago

• Japans Fleet Departs to Hunt 900 Whales

  
  Dot Earth — Authority: 720
  Japans whaling fleet heads to sea, and a marine conservationist and scientist decries the impending kill.
  1 week ago

• Japan embarks on annual whale hunt--can Sea Shepherd be far behind?

  
  Outposts — Authority: 518
  Whaling ships from Japan left today for Antarctic waters on an annual five-month voyage in pursuit of about 1,000 minke whales and a small number of endangered fin whales. The seasonal hunts, during the Antarctic summer, are highly controversial. Theyre carried out in the name of research but the meat is sold in ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court rejects Tokyo Two appeal for disclosure of key evidence

  
  Greenpeace Canada weblogs — Authority: 122
  After weeks and weeks of awaiting, the decision by the Supreme court of Japan on whether to allow the disclosure of evidence was made and it was not in our favour. The following press release was released from Japan by our team working closely on the T2 case……our thoughts are with Junichi and Toru, and the ...
  1 week ago

• The Return of the Scrimshaw Kid.

  
  monkeywhale.com — Authority: 120
  After completely disappearing  for almost a whole year, Samuel Burdett, the Scrimshaw Kid himself, showed up at the last night of the Save the Monkeywhale Festival .  I could not believe it. Start from the start : Tales of the Scrimshaw Kid Chapter I . We had a crazy week.  All of us here at ...
  1 week ago

• Oceanic Viking Hobart

  
  Tasmania in Photographs — Authority: 104
  UPDATE :18th November 2009 The Oceanic Viking farewells the last of the asylum seekers .. Caption: The Indonesian government expects Australia to keep its resettlement promise. (Reuters: Vivek Prakash ) Australia expected to resettle asylum seekers By Geoff Thompson for AM and staff Photo and ...
  1 week ago

• An End to Japanese Whaling?

  
  Critter News — Authority: 133
  I seriously doubt it, despite the Greenpeace report in Wildlife Extra News. . Its too much a matter of international pride. (I know, I know, Im always a pessimist....but Im so good at it!) A major review of Japanese government spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, ...
  1 week ago

• Whale Skeletons at Hull Maritime Museum

  
  Chris Routledge — Authority: 100
  These images were taken at the Hull Maritime Museum . Most of them are of the skeleton of a Southern Right Whale. There are two exceptions: an Orca or Killer Whale, suspended in chains, and the lower jawbone of a Sperm Whale washed up on the Holderness coast and later displayed at Burton Constable . This whale is ...
  1 week ago

• Japan’s whaling fleet facing cutbacks

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Andrew Darby, 14/11/09Japan’s new cost-cutting government has raised hopes of an end to its ”research” whaling by flagging plans to scrap interest-free loans that the industry relies on. A government razor gang has targeted the Japanese Overseas Fisheries Co-operation Fund, which supports the whaling fleet’s ...
  2 weeks ago

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