Last year Iceland announced that they were going to stop whaling and now their government has authorized the Icelandic whalers to begin their killing of 40 Minke whales. This is an about face and a defiant in your face act towards the global moratoriium on commercial whaling. Captain Paul Watson says, ” The Icelandic whaling industry [...]
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Iceland Resumes Whaling
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Whale News, Whale Slaughter, Whale Suffering
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Teens Against Whaling
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Japanese Whaling, Whale Conference, Whale News, Whale Slaughter, Whale Suffering
In a recent commentary, Captain Paul Watson, mentions that one of his favorite people, Skye Bortoli, is heading to the June 18th International Whaling Commission meeting in Santiago, Chile. Skye is 15 years old and has founded the organization Teens Against Whaling. For more about what her organization is doing go to www.teensagainstwhaling.com This is very heartening [...]
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Japanese Whaling Fleet Returns Home
April 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Japanese Whaling, Whale News, Whale Slaughter
The Japanese whaling fleet has returned to port in Tokyo with the remains of 551 whales that they illegally slaughtered in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. They only got 53% of their alloted quota of 1035 whales and not a single fin or humpback whale. They blame the failure of the whaling fleet on Sea Shepherd [...]
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An Uplifting Whale/Dolphin Story
March 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Dolphin News, Whale Encounters, Whale News
Two pygmy sperm whales had been attempting to beach themselves on New Zealand shores and a group of people tried in vein for an hour and a half to get the whales to sea. They were exhausted and about to give up when Moko, a well known bottlenose dolphin that regularly plays with the swimmers, showed up and went [...]
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