Ocean Sentry

Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying

Today, 90% of the sea’s species from the highest parts of the food chain or its biggest predators, such as tuna, cod, sword fish and sharks have practically been eliminated or are in a situation of critical decline. The result is an unstable ecosystem...

Campaign for the Bluefin Tuna

Bluefin tuna faces a devastating future and a devastating future for a species means an uncertain future for all of us. The increasing voracious appetite for sushi and sashimi, the greed and the lack of a governmental organisation able to claim responsibility for it is taking the bluefin tuna to a point of no return. The population of the species

Campaign for the Sharks

Over 8,000 tons of shark fins are processed each year. The fins only amount to 4% of a shark's bodyweight. This means that some 200,000 tons of shark are thrown back into the sea and discarded. Already 18 species of sharks have been listed as endanger...

Campaign for the Whales

Whales and other cetaceans have been dwelling the oceans since time immemorial. These placid and peaceful beings are among the most intelligent of our planet. Their complex communication systems and their highly developed behaviour remain nowadays the great unfathomable mystery

The End of the Line

The world’s first major documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing premiered at Sundance Film Festival Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop..

The Cove

The Cove begins in Taiji, Japan, where former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry has come to set things right after a long search for redemption. In the 1960s, it was O’Barry who captured and trained the 5 dolphins who played the title character in the international television sensation “Flipper.”...

Sea Shepherd in the Galapagos

Since 2000, Sea Shepherd has maintained a strong, positive presence in the Galapagos Islands. From patroling the Marine Reserve stopping illegal fishing activities, to busting shark finners, to educating the local youth, Sea Shepherd carries out its mission of promoting ocean conservation using a wide range of methods and actions.The Galapagos is our line in the sand. If humanity cannot

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The World of 2108

I was asked recently what I thought the world would be like in 100 years. The question was meant to solicit if I am an optimist or a pessimi...

7 Billion Beasts

Africa's a mess. Doesn't hardly matter what horrid scourge you're looking for, Africa's got it: genocide, civil war, systematic rape, dictat...

We Need to Stop Eating the Oceans

By Captain Paul Watson The Oceans are like the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg. As long as it was alive it laid a golden egg each day but the...

Lex Natura

By Captain Paul Watson. I have the utmost respect for the law. Indeed, it is our duty as citizens of the Earth to live harmoniously within a...

EU ban on seal goods imports in place, with exceptions

A European Union embargo on importing seal products went into effect Friday as planned though an exception was made for legal challengers to the ban, the European Commission said. Following consultations with the EU members, the commission said the ban would not apply to the plaintiffs in a case before the European General Court....

58 pilot whales die in New Zealand beach stranding

New Zealand whale rescue volunteers were racing against time Friday to save 15 pilot whales stranded on an isolated northern beach — after rescuers reported 58 of the pod had already died. Kimberly Muncaster, chief executive of the Project Jonah whale aid group,..

Researchers Say 80% of Oil Spill Stay on the Gulf’s Seafloor

Researchers from University of Georgia found out that almost 80 percent of the oil blown up from the broken well of BP remained and settled on the seafloor in the gulf. Scientists are still monitoring the waters along the Gulf of Mexico, to evaluate and see what will be the great impact of the oil that first believed been evaporated naturally in the water. However,..

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Prior to 1996, there was a pathetic zoo in Stanley Park, with a collection of over 50 animals, including snakes, emus, wolves, monkeys, kangaroos, and polar bears. Among the pathetic-looking animals, many of which were clearly suffering from the stress of confinement, were a few Humboldt penguins. Spectators would stand around the penguin pen, as...

Interpol, Blue Rage, The Mafia & Non-Violence at Sea: Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson Talks With TreeHugger
How do react to the arrest warrant put out against you by the Japanese government? How are they going to enforce that? PAUL WATSON: I have no idea. This all took place out in the Southern Ocean, in international waters, or in the Australian Antarctic Territory, from a Dutch ship. Here's the thing, the captain of the Shonan Maru 2 deliberately...

George Muller: Whaling deal holds grave risks
Scientist George Muller says the whaling compromise is not based on conservation. Recent discussions have focused on seeking a diplomatic solution to whaling, as though a cosy face-saving "win-win" scenario would somehow leave all sides happy. Unfortunately, science does not merge well with politics. Compromises seldom work for safeguarding...

History repeats itself: the path to extinction is still paved with greed and waste
As a child I read about the near-extinction of the American bison. Once the dominant species on America's Great Plains, I remember books illustrating how train-travelers would set their guns on open windows and shoot down bison by the hundreds as the locomotive sped through what was left of the wild west. The American bison plunged from an...

Fish deserve as much protection as rhinos and tigers
When is an endangered species not an endangered species? When it lives in the sea, apparently. Despite continuing carnage in the ocean, marine creatures were refused any protection at the United Nations conference on trade in wildlife that ended yesterday in Doha, Qatar...

Whaling: the great betrayal
The moratorium on commercial whaling, one of the environmental movement's greatest achievements, looks likely to be swept away this summer by a new international deal being negotiated behind closed doors. The new arrangement would legitimise the whaling activities of the three countries which have continued to hunt whales in defiance of the ban...

Japan lands a death sentence for the bluefin
It was a desperate defeat. The European Union and the United States had come to Doha to save the bluefin tuna, a fish so delicious as sushi and sashimi that large specimens fetch $100,000 on the Japanese market. As a consequence the species is as endangered as the white rhino. But, just like the tunas that return each year to the Mediterranean to...