Animal Rights

Sea Shepherds Find Japanese Harpoon Ship Yushin Maru 3

January 4, 2012
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The SeaShepherd Anti-Whaling ship The Bob Barker.

Anti-whaling activists claimed a small victory in their Antarctic campaign Wednesday with the discovery of a Japanese harpoon ship, as one of their boats limped back to Australia badly damaged. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said its Bob Barker vessel found the Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru 3 some 200 nautical miles north of the French Antarctic base Dumont d’Urville. “The Bob Barker has been out at sea for about four weeks and this...

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Japan Spends $28 million of Donated Tsunami Relief Funds on Illegal Whaling

December 8, 2011
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Japanese whaling vessel Yushin Maru 3. Part of Japans illegal whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

The Japanese government has admitted to using $28 million of donated earthquake and tsunami relief funds to increase security aboard it’s illegal whaling vessels. Environmental groups such as the Sea Shepherd’s have been waging a non violent war against Japans illegal whaling operations in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Now Japan has responded by placing armed guards and military personnel aboard their whaling ships. Fisheries Agency official Tatsuya Nakaoku said the extra security was designed...

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