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 Defenses on Whaling Are Cracking

Behind Japan's outspoken and irrational defense of whaling there is an undercurrent of dissent within the Japanese establishment. This week the Sydeny Morning Herald reported that Tomohiko Taniguchi, the official voice of Japan for the last three years has expressed his views on Japan's controversial whaling activities. Taniguchi was the voice for the Japan…
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Japanese whaler and ecologists set sail for annual confrontation

(By Mark McDonald Friday, November 21, 2008 HONG KONG): Quietly, without the usual bon voyage fanfare and Buddhist blessings, a Japanese whaling ship set sail this week on its yearly hunt for the great whales of the Southern Ocean. If the hunting is good, the Nisshin Maru will haul in more than 1,000 whales. Meanwhile, at the Rivergate Marina in Brisbane, Au…
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'It takes a pirate': Sea Shepherd captain

After Japanese whalers depart for Antarctica's icy waters this week, in their wake will be environmental pirate Captain Paul Watson and his band of 40 Sea Shepherd volunteers. Capt Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, will steer the group's flagship vessel Steve Irwin to Antarctica to go head to head with a fleet of about eight Japanese …
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Peter Garrett's Year of Living Hypocritically

There is nothing more insincere than a politician just before an election. They will fire promises from the hip with a veneer of passion and resolve that is peeled quickly away after the votes are counted. Australian Environmental Minister Peter Garrett is a case in point. When Mr. Garrett was an activist musician with Midnight Oil he was a man to be proud o…
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