Back in 1986 Iceland stopped whaling after the Sea Shepherd sank half its whaling fleet in Reykjavik harbor. According to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society: “Two of the four whaling ships were scuttled by Sea Shepherd engineers and the whale processing plant was destroyed. The two ships were never repaired and Icelandic whaling was shut [...]
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Karen Dawn puts it all together and ties it with a nice bow. Read, enjoy, get active. It is Christmas, which means before I go have a beautiful veggie meal with my loved ones and then retire for a week, I get to send out my round up of the major animal stories in the [...]
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Capt. Paul Watson reported yesterday that the Sea Shepherd vessel, Steve Irwin, has departed Australia to take on Japanese whalers. This year, the Japanese plan to kill “935 threatened Piked whales plus 50 endangered Fin whales in an established Whale Sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on commercial whaling. ‘Our objective is to sink [...]
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Since I live in the U.S., a glass house when it comes to animal rights and wildlife conservation, I’ll leave it up to my Canadian friend at Ethics and Animals to throw stones at the Canadian government on this heinous decision. Canada must be granted a distinct reputation for its particular crimes against animals and [...]
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Thanks to DawnWatch we can read these fine editorials from two leading newspapers about the recent Supreme Court decision to allow the Navy to use harmful sonar in whale habitat. Please follow the links to thank these newspapers for their animal-friendly viewpoints. In October I shared news from the New York Times, in which we [...]
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Here’s a recent DawnWatch Alert about one of the organizations I support monthly and appreciate greatly, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Check out their great new Web site with RSS and e-newsletter subscriptions! On Thursday, October 30, Captain Paul Watson, and Executive Director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Kim McCoy, were interviewed on NBC’s [...]
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