Ocean Sentry - Defending Oceans and Whales

Sea Shepherd Vs the Empire of the Rising Sun

My friends, We have hurt the Japanese whaling industry. We have hurt them very badly and they are angry, extremely angry. We are beginning to receive a firestorm of political, economic, and media pressure to stop us from returning to the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary to protect the whales from the... Read More

Battleship Antarctica

Film Review by Captain Paul Watson - I finally got a chance to view the documentary Battleship Antarctica and it was indeed an educational experience. This is a documentary about the Greenpeace voyage to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in 2006 and 2007. I highly recommend it... Read More

Animal Planet - WHALE WARS

Sea Shepherd is very excited to announce that on Friday, November 7th Animal Planet will premiere Whale Wars at 9 PM ET/PT in the US, and internationally in early 2009. During Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Migaloo in 2007/08, Animal Planet had a camera crew... Read More

Operation Musashi – Designed For Controversy

(By Captain Paul Watson) I knew that when I chose the name for our next Antarctic campaign to defend the whales that it would be controversial. That was the point. Some critics have suggested that I have foolishly named our next campaign to Antarctica as Operation Musashi without understanding who... Read More

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Longline and Shark Finning

Longline and Shark Finning A longline is a fishing line usually made of monofilament. The length of the line gen...

Sea Shepherd in the Galapagos

Sea Shepherd in the Galapagos Some 960 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Archipelago is fame...

Shin-ken shō-bu

Sea Shepherd Shin-ken sho-bu Sea Shepherd's Operation Musashi is under assault by the full weight of the Japanese government....

I Do Not Support Greenpeace

I do not support Greenpeace You love marine wildlife and you respect their right to life in the oceans t...

The World of 2108

I do not support Greenpeace I was asked recently what I thought the world would be like in 100 years. The ques...

Something Very Rotten in Denmark

Something rotten in Denmark My mother was Danish and her father Otto Larsen was a famous Danish painter. Hi...

Japanese whalers 'free to slaughter'

(From abc.net.au)- The anti-whaling ship the Steve Irwin is withdrawing from its pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean to refuel. The captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's protest ship, Paul Watson, says the move will leave the Japanese fleet free to slaughter whales over the next fortnight. Captain Watson says the Steve Ir…
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Sea Shepherd to Return to Land to Refuel

After chasing the Japanese whaling fleet for 2,000 miles from the extreme Western end of their hunting territory near Commonwealth Bay in the Australian Antarctic Territory, to the Eastern side of the Ross Sea, the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin has been forced to cut off the pursuit to return to land for refueling. "We have engaged them, we have stopped the…
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Japan Contemptuously Dismisses Australian Concerns for the Whales

It's official. The Japanese government has made it very clear that they have no respect and not a modicum of concern for the opinions of the Australian people over the whaling controversy. Japan's official spokesperson for the whaling industry, Glen Inwood of New Zealand, has boasted to the media that, "Public opinion in Australia does not matter." This quot…
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Canadian Government Desperately Seeks to Avoid Seal Product Ban

After years of denying that the hakapik and the club were inhumane, the Canadian government in a desperate attempt to appease European legislators has decided to restrict the use of both weapons. The Canadian government is also now demanding that the sealers ensure that they kill the seals before skinning them; something they have also long denied is done. T…
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