Australia said Monday it is "deeply disappointed" that Japan has continued whaling in the Southern Ocean after anti-whaling activists published a photograph of a dead whale two days after Australian and Japanese leaders discussed the issue. Australia has long opposed Japanese whaling and the contentious ...
Activist group Sea Shepherd's speedy new patrol vessel Ocean Warrior on Friday intercepted a Japanese harpoon ship "hiding behind an iceberg" in thick fog as its annual high-seas battle against whaling kicked off. Two vessels from the environmental organization left Australia on Dec. 5 bound ...
Two ships have left Australia, bound for the freezing Southern Ocean to confront the Japanese whaling fleet in an annual high-seas battle, environmental activist group Sea Shepherd said Monday. The organization's flagship, the Steve Irwin, departed for Antarctic waters along with fast, new patrol vessel ...
With its distinctive Jolly Roger flag flying from the mast, the sleek, high-speed, slate-gray Ocean Warrior is the latest weapon in the bitter war between marine conservationists and Japan's whaling fleet. "The one thing that we were missing in our fleet was a vessel with ...
Sea Shepherd announced Tuesday it will for the first time be able to outrun the Japanese whaling fleet in the upcoming annual battle in the icy Southern Ocean. The anti-whaling group is adding a fast new vessel to its campaign in Antarctic waters starting this ...
U.S.-based activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has reached a court-mediated settlement in which it is permanently prevented from "physically attacking" Japanese whaling vessels and crew.
He's a fugitive on Interpol's Red List and a marine vigilante who's done jail time after extradition requests. Yet to many, he's also a heroic marine conservationist who risks his life and those of his crew to save countless endangered whales, turtles, dolphins and ...
Homegrown foes of dolphin hunts and "research whaling" face off against a daunting array of powerful interests.
Radical environmentalists were found in contempt of court Friday for failing to heed an order to halt their relentless campaign to disrupt the annual whale hunt off the waters of Antarctica. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a commissioner to determine how much ...
The Institute of Cetacean Research files briefs in Seattle District Court stating its intent to resume whale hunting in the Southern Ocean as early as fiscal 2015.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says he will look for ways to continue whaling despite an order by the world court to discontinue the hunt.
The greatest threat to Japan's whaling industry may not be the environmentalists harassing its ships or the countries demanding its abolishment, but consumers who have lost their appetite for the delicacy. The amount of whale meat stockpiled for lack of buyers has nearly doubled over ...
