SEA SHEPHERD NEWS

UPDATE FROM TAIJI: Nine Dolphins Held Captive; Dolphin Defenders Grow in Strength in the Town Without Pity - Dolphin lovers from around the world are now starting to converge on Taiji. Sea Shepherd crew members will not be the only dolphin defenders here for long. This afternoon, some twenty newly arrived people will be meeting in the town with inflatable dolphins in tow. More westerners, as the Japanese Coast Guard today referred to them, will be arriving over the coming days, weeks, and months, including high profile celebrities.....read more

Update from Taiji, Japan - I have just downloaded these pictures from my camera taken this morning. As you can see there is one dolphin in a sea pen waiting to be trained and shipped off to a marine park somewhere for a life of misery, to be fed a cocktail of antibiotics and anti-depressants for the remainder of its natural life.....read more

Ten Dolphins Captured at The Cove in Taiji, Japan - The first dolphins to be caught in Taiji this season were herded into the notorious Cove at Taiji, Japan today. These dolphins will be killed unless people come to Taiji to defend them.  Sea Shepherd has a crew of Australians, New Zealanders, Americans and Japanese in Taiji, but are seriously out numbered....read more

Sea Shepherd Supporter Files Police Claim Against the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs - At 10:15 on the 31st of August, Sea Shepherd Supporter Peter Manthos from Vejle, Denmark filed a police claim against the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for failure to abide by the Bern Convention by allowing the Faeroese pilot whale slaughter to continue. ....read more

Sea Shepherd Galapagos Director Rewarded by Dutch Postcode Lottery - Sea Shepherd Galapagos Director, Captain Alex Cornelissen, has been presented with the Golden Banner--a reward from the Dutch Postcode Lottery for people who work to better our planet. It is accompanied by a check worth € 20,000 which can be used for any project in the Galapagos.....read more

Other Recent News

• 25 Aug 10 Faeroe Islands: New Photos Show that Bloodbath in Leynar Claimed Four Pregnant Females
• 20 Aug 10 Early Warning System for the Whales: Sea Shepherd Deploys Acoustical Warning System for Whales in the Faeroe Islands
• 18 Aug 10 Death in the Ferocious Isles: Sea Shepherd under Escort by the Danish Navy
• 17 Aug 10 Sea Shepherd Featured in MUTTS Comic Strip
• 06 Aug 10 World’s Youngest Sailor Sets Sail Under the Sea Shepherd Flag
• 04 Aug 10 GO GREENS! A Political Solution to End Whaling in the Southern Ocean

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COMMENTARY & EDITORIAL

Insight Into Reality TV by The New York Times - It's been a very good media year for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. We have received media coverage from around the world, Today, we saw Whale Wars was featured in The New York Times.  Some of our supporters have expressed concern that sometimes the coverage of Sea Shepherd events appears negative. This piece in The New York Times attempts to explain why this is so.  The answer can be summed up in one word – Television!   And more specifically in two words – Reality Television!....read more

The Dark Hobby; Can We Stop the Devastating Impact of Home Aquaria on Reefs Worldwide? - Guest Commentary by Robert Wintner - The average aquarium hobbyist is a 30-50+ male who spent hundreds or thousands, depending on the size of his tank, stand, lights, filters, pumps, tubing and ornaments. The tentative hobbyist with a ten-gallon tank and one anemone clownfish as seen in Finding Nemo stays in briefly, because anemone clownfish die soon in a small tank. When aquarium fish die (99% within a year), tanks need more fish. The fishious circle is relentless: flush & plunk a new fish......read more

      Other Recent Commentaries

• Refuting the Racist Rhetoric
• Ecuador has not joined the pro-whaling block in the IWC
• Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Addresses the People of the Faeroe Islands
• Sea Shepherd Operation Gulf Rescue Update
• The Faeroes and Mercury in Our Seafood
• Beware of the “Seal Shepherd”

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