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...

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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Shark Angels

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Sea Shepherd has long been committed to shark conservation, and in 2007 it took this commitment to an even higher level by co-founding the S...

Save the marine turtles

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A marine turtle survey has been recently completed near Ella Bay in Far North Queensland Australia. After discovering previously unrecorded ...

The World of 2108

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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

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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

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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...

Longline and Shark Finning

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A longline is a fishing line usually made of monofilament. The length of the line generally ranges from 1.6km (1 mile) to as long as 100km (...

Illegal Countries. Don't Buy. Don't Go!

Currently we have already depleted 90 per cent of apex predators that inhabit the oceans worldwide. Oceans have become floating slaughters of wild marine fauna much more cruel than abattoirs of domestic animals on land. What we would never tolerate in these places of horror is actually taking place in the oceans on wild species: socially complex and intelligent species such as whales can last up 45 minutes to die after being shot by an explosive harpoon on their backs,  baby harp seals are skinned most of them alive, sharks,  millions of years of earlier existence than human, are mutilated for their fins and thrown still alive at sea every day, dolphin, orcas, small cetaceans, and many others are captured in violent hunts, splitting up strong family links to satisfy the increasing demand from marine parks and  human entertainment.

Preserve and conserve diversity of all marine wildlife, from large marine mammals to tiny plankton, is crucial for our own survival. This is not an attitude for the animal right but a vital stand for life in this planet and future generations, oceanic and terrestrial.

The following countries are collaborating in the slaughter of wild marine species and in the depletion and unbalance of marine ecosystems, putting at risk the fragile ecosystem that support us:

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Canada for the barbaric slaughter of thousands of baby harp seals, 42 per cent of which are skinned still alive, for neglecting the serious threats caused by climate warming on polar bears habitat and other animals also dependent on ice  for their survival, for permitting trophy hunts of endangered species and for bringing  wild salmon and cod population at collapse.

Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Japan for the annual illegal slaughter of endangered fin and minke whales and other threatened whales in violation of a commercial moratorium in a Whale Sanctuary established international en May, 1994. Furthermore, Japan in violation of the Antarctic Treaty, in violation of the Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species and in contempt of an Australian Federal Court. Japan is also supporting the millionaire industry of marine parks that feeds an annual cruel slaughter of 23000 dolphins in Taiji.
Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Norway for resuming commercial whaling though a loophole in the regulation of the International Commercial Whaling
Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Greenland for the largest world slaughter after Japan of hundreds of endangered fin and minke whales, for the slaughter of hundreds of small whales and baby belugas, for the brutal ‘aboriginal hunt’ that has exceeded quotas widely bringing fin whales at the brink of extinction.
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Spain for its brutal fishing fleet on wild marine life in Mediterranean and oceans worldwide, for being the fifth country in the world and the first in Europe in shark fishing and shark fin trade to Asiatic market, for overfishing indiscriminately without respecting size and quota, for eluding programs that  enforce protection of sharks and other species critically endangered such as bluefin tuna, for encouraging shark meat using false labelling and deliberately misinform consumers, for promoting fishing sector and for exploiting millionaire and illegal fishing agreements with Africa.

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Iceland for resuming commercial whaling despite of an international moratorium that prohibits commercial whaling after two decades halt on whaling.

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Salomon Islands for the hunt of hundreds of dolphins in the South Pacific to sell to dolphinariums, last selling on August, 2009. A Sea Shepherd teamfrom New Zealand documented the conditions that the dolphins are enduring in the holding pens in the Solomon Islands.

Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Faeroe Islands for the slaughter in name of tradition of hundreds of pilot whales and any other whale spotted from land. As any other slaughter, this is widely considered ‘not necessary’.
Namibia Namibia for beaten thousands of baby fur seals every year considered by the government as a competitive threat for their fishing industry.
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St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the killing (not regulated by IWC) of humpbacks whales, Pilot Whales, Shortfinned Pilot Whale, Pygmy Whale and Spinner dolphins and market the meat as "Caribbean beef", for being bought by the Japanese fishing industry.
Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags China for bringing to extinction sharks for their traditional shark fin soup, for its macabre torture of any species in this planet, China must be mentioned as a cruel country.
Flag image courtesy of 4 International FlagsFlag image courtesy of 4 International FlagsFlag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Poland, Norway, Namibia, Finland, Greenland and Korea for paying bloody money for the dead of thousands of wild animals to killer countries like Canada.

Aboriginal subsistence whaling

Canada grants whaling to various Inuit groups around the country.

The United States permits to Alaskan natives Inupiat the hunting of Bowhead and Gray whales in Alaskan waters and grants to Makah tribe to resume whaling.

Russia grants to Chukotka Autonomous Okrug tribe under IWC regulation to take up to 140 Gray Whales per year from the North-East Pacific

Indonesia is permitted to hunt some Cachalots and dophins and several species of sharks.

Other slaughters

Hunters for their disgrace hobby of killing any wild animal.

 


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