South Korea would consider resuming whaling off its shores if the International Whaling Commission (IWC) approves a plan for neighbour Japan to conduct coastal whaling
Seeking an end to the continuing slaughter of false killer whales in the waters of Hawai‘i, Earthjustice, representing a coalition of conservation groups, filed suit in federal court in Honolulu...
"The vast majority of Europeans want the EU to enact a strong prohibition on seal products, which will end the suffering I witness on the Canadian ice floes each year."
In the wake of environmental decline and man's impact on the earth, and the ocean, there are several marine mammal hunts, including international whaling, and the dolphin slaughter in Japan,that...
Thank you to Shara Teter from the New York Underwater Photographic Society for heading up to Martha's Vineyard to cover the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament
Animal rights activists are bracing themselves for yet another showdown with the Namibian authorities as sealers prepare for the start of the 2008 seal killing season, which starts on Tuesday
Chile declared a permanent ban on whaling in its waters on Monday, as conservation groups feared an International Whaling Commission meeting it is hosting will fail to halt the world's top whaler...
Please bring your cameras and join us this Saturday and help cover this horrible event so that it can be broadcast to the world in efforts to create awareness and help save our sharks
The United States called on Tuesday for a review of international law to regulate the killing of whales for scientific research in an apparent attempt to plug a loophole exploited by Japan, which...
A South African paper writes of "Sadistic slaughter of sea creatures, gun shots at dawn and eyewitness intimidation ? This is apparently a daily occurrence just off our shores and indeed, those of...
Greenpeace environmental campaigners on Wednesday handed a box of meat they allege was stolen by Japanese whalers over to Tokyo prosecutors to aid an official investigation into the case
Greenpeace on Thursday accused Japanese whalers of stealing meat from the country's annual research hunt in the Antarctic and selling it on the black market
Shark's fin consumption more than doubled in Singapore last year from 2006, with demand driven by an economic boom and an increase in wedding celebrations, a report said Saturday
Sydney - Australia was still considering taking its whaling dispute with Japan to international courts, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Thursday
Today, representatives of The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International return to court to refute charges relating to technical violations of Canada's Fisheries Act...
A clearly agitated Loyola Hearn, Canada's Minister of Fishy Business held a media conference in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a vindictive and clearly angry denunciation of Captain Paul Watson and...
You may recognize the name Kurt Amsler as one of the foremost professional underwater photographers in Europe. Kurt needs your help to stop the turtle slaughter in Bali
Japan, in a feud with Western nations about whaling, said on Friday it will meet with 12 developing states in a bid to boost its clout in the deadlocked International Whaling Commission
The increasing international demand for shark meat and shark fins, which is pushing some species towards extinction, has caught marine scientists and managers by surprise, says one of Cape Town's...
A militant environmental group on Tuesday said it had planted tracking devices on Japanese whaling ships to ensure they could always find the harpoon boats in the vast Southern Ocean
Over-fishing and demand for shark fins, an expensive delicacy, have pushed one of the world's iconic animals towards the brink of extinction, say experts
Populations of tiger, bull, dusky and other sea sharks have plummeted by more than 95 percent since the 1970s as fisherman kill the animals for their fins or when they scoop other fish from the ocean
CNN.com reports this morning on "Fried dolphin on menu in japanese town". I do not want to bear on the ethical issues of harvesting dolphins. Every culture has their animals they eat that other...
Norway has set a commercial whaling quota of 1,052 minke whales in 2008, unchanged from last year, drawing criticism from environmental groups pressuring Oslo to join the international community...
Captain Paul Watson and his crew of international volunteers are anxious to refuel, re-supply and complete repairs as soon as possible in order to return to the Southern Oceans
Environmental group Greenpeace said on Saturday its anti-whaling ship, which has been harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, had saved an estimated 100 whales but was running low on fuel...
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark warned Japanese whaling ships on Friday that surveillance photos of the fleet revealing their location would be published if they entered New Zealand's...
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has called for a calming of emotions over whaling, defending his country's controversial Antarctic hunt as scientific research
Police have broken an illegal whale poaching racket, confiscating more than 50 tonnes of Minke meat in the largest seizure of its kind in South Korea, an official said Saturday
In December a New Zealand Department of Conservation ranger came across a gruesome find in the Marlborough Sounds: the bloodied carcasses of 30 sand sharks whose fins had been cut off by commercial...
A WORLD expert on the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice, the Cambridge law faculty chair James Crawford, has been drafted by the Federal Government to tackle Japanese whale hunting
The Japanese government has confirmed a rumour first reported at the Greenpeace weblog, that they've abandoned plans to kill humpback whales in the Southern Ocean this season
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown lashed the "unacceptably cruel" whaling industry Friday, hours after Japan said it was dropping plans to hunt humpback whales
There have been calls for restraint in whaling activism following the departure of several anti-whaling groups from Australia and New Zealand this week
This morning, in the grey swells of the Southern Ocean, a pirate ship will enter the waters of the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is a black ship, bearing a black pirate flag, the Jolly Roger....
US lawmakers urged Japan to limit its whale hunt and use other, non-lethal means to conduct scientific research on whales.
Democratic and Republican senators sent a letter Thursday to Japan's...
To create awareness to the worldside shark-finning problem, the Protect the Sharks Foundation has created the International Shark Photo Exposition (ISPE).
Sharks are particularly vulnerable to...
Australians fear that the world's only known white humpback whale could be slaughtered as Japan's whaling fleet prepares to embark on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean
Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd staff members, International Director Jonny Vasic and Events & Media Relations Director Kristine Vasic departed for Melbourne November 5th after a successful...
Docs on the Bay, a new documentary film festival to be held annually in Stephenville, is the first film festival in Atlantic Canada dedicated solely to the presentation and promotion of documentary...
Five defendants are set to stand trial in the Magdalen Islands Thursday, accused of violating their observation permits during the 2006 East Coast seal hunt. The defendants are representatives of...
A fur trade campaigner from Nottingham has said he would rather go to jail than pay a fine after being accused of breaching an exclusion zone to film a seal cull in Canada.
Mark Glover, of the...
The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment...
Bodies of at least half a dozen endangered Ganges river dolphins have been found near a railway track at Hathidah in Bihar's Patna district. The dolphins had been cut into pieces and stuffed into...
New York really does have a rejuvenated diver scene these days, thanks in large part to OceanBlue Divers, the one year old dive club that boasts nearly 1,000 members, and the host of a lovely...
On September 25, WDCS will join in a worldwide protest to denounce Japanus annual slaughter of dolphins during the 4th annual uA…aˆ?Japan Dolphin Day.uA‚A? The demonstrations will be held at...
On September 13, 2007, early morning, fishermen from Lianjiang, Fujian Province caught a giant whale shark. It weighed 8.5 tons and was 8.5 meters long.
After the whale shark was slaughtered,...
THROUGHOUT the last two weeks, letter writers, heads of organisations like WWF, the Methodist Church, the Macuata Provincial Council, the Department of Fisheries and the chiefly household of...
MarineBio partner the Guadalupe Island Conservation Fund has been working hard to get Yahoo! and its sister company Alibaba.com to stop selling thousands of tons of dried shark fins through their...
This blog post is from the Alliance Diving Blog, via Dermot Keane, GM of Samus Tours and Founder of the Palau Shark Sanctuary, Palau Micronesia...
Just last week around August 15, yet another...
Top marine scientists have lashed out at a planned shark-fishing competition off Durban next weekend with one describing it as a return to the "dark days of revenge killing" of the...
One of our concerned members, Edward Dorson, brought this issue to my attention this week, after he responded to an appeal recently made by underwater photographer Walt Stearns. Somehow the...
Sign a Petition to Reinstate the Shark Fin Ban in Ecuador. Last week we ran a story from The Guardian (UK): Hundreds of sharks have been slaughtered daily off the coast of Ecuador since a ban on...
Hundreds of sharks have been slaughtered daily off the coast of Ecuador since a ban on the sale of fins was lifted last week, prompting warnings of ecological disaster.
Fishing boats have returned...
Members of the International SHARK - L Discussion List have recently got together to write the following letter to Discovery Network regarding Shark Week programming.
If you feel that you agree...
Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science said the presence of sharks in the state's coastal waters should not surprise or alarm people.
Dean Grubbs, a researcher at VIMS, directs...
March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
The slaugther of Seaturtles in Bali
The Island of Bali in Indonesia has been the hub of the sea turtle trade for two decades. The buyers of turtle meat, shells and eggs are mainly found in the...
With some species on endangered lists, others depleted, it's time to end the big- money killing orgies.
What will they hunt when the sharks are gone? Which will be
the next species pursued...
Fisheries should be banned from cutting fins off sharks while still at sea, to stem a dramatic decline in their populations, scientists and conservationists warned yesterday.
The move would close...
In October 2006, after 20 years of compliance, Iceland began to violate the International Whaling Commission's global moratorium on whaling and gave only a one-day notice before killing a whale....
With over 177,222 harp seals and seal babies slaughtered to date, it seems like things couldn't get much worse in Canada. Yet, brutality witnessed on the ice this month by the seal hunt observation...
Dominica has rejected criticism that its vote on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was up for sale, after the prime minister returned from Japan and renewed his support for commercial...
The crews from over a dozen sealing ships have been removed from their damaged vessels by the Canadian Coast Guard. In total, nearly one hundred small sealing vessels remain trapped in rafting ice...
Last year, the hunt left more than 350,000 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days of age. One of our most effective weapons against the hunt is a boycott of Canadian...
Mating strategies are straightforward in bottlenose dolphins, or are they? Much of the work carried on male-female relationships in that species to date show that males tend to coerce females who...
In August 1999, I was a 19-year-old photographer on assignment to photograph sharks in the Galapagos Islands. Instead of filming the creatures in all their majesty, I wound up releasing dying...
Five hundred tons of whale meat, part of the harvest from Japan's whaling operation in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, appears to have mysteriously disappeared. The likely explanation seems to...
Thin ice is killing baby seals in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence by the thousands and forcing the delay of the area's annual harp seal hunt for the second year in a row.
The controversial...
The following piece was written by Shawn Heinrichs, who won first place in the 2nd Annual Wetpixel & DivePhotoGuide International Underwater Photo & Video Competition at Our World...
Did you ever want to write a letter to the Pope, but you didn't know what to say? Well, here's your chance to write that letter. Sea turtle advocates did all the work for you, and they vastly...
The first stage of Canada's controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and many animals have drowned, officials and animal...
Canadian officials remained uncertain Wednesday if the controversial annual seal hunt can take place this year in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, citing higher-than-normal mortality rates of...
Photos taken by Dutch tourists of the slaughter of two sea turtles threatened with extinction have prompted the government to make plans for a natural protectorate to keep the turtles safe from...
March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
Marine environmental group Project AWARE foundation has appealed to the Yemeni government to take action against shark fishing, after it received reports about systematic shark slaughter taking...
New York Underwater Photo Society/
Dive Photo Guide competitions/
Bahama sharks with Eric Cheng/
Truk with Martin Edge/
Emerald Seas Best Cover Design/
Dominica recompression chamber/
The...
One of our underwater.com.au members alerted me to this story and yes there have been way to many crazt stories like this in the press lately.
Jo's words on this topic:
Many more similar...
A local Dominican Republic society against animal cruelty (SODOPRECA) is gathering signatures in support of a petition to the president of Dominican Republic and the Environmental Minister. This...
These Leatherback Turtles continue to be slaughtered by the Asian Long Line Fishing Fleets every hour of every day. NO one has any control on the operations of these boats. Here in U.S.A. The...
Every year, more than 20,000 dolphins and small whales are killed in Japanese waters. One of the more unpleasant techniques used to do this is by drive hunts, where groups of dolphins are rounded...
The Government has released defence surveillance footage of a Japanese whaling fleet in the Ross Sea, in an attempt to sway Japanese public opinion over their government's whaling programme.
The...
Greenpeace has uncovered more than 170 tons of rotting whale meat in an Icelandic dump site, just months after Iceland reopened commercial whaling and killed seven endangered fin whales. Another...
12 dolphins recently captured in Taiji, Japan as part of the annual dolphin hunt are awaiting export to the Dominican Republic. This video documents the brutal annual dolphin hunt, and gives the...
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Leviathan is underway to stop the Japanese whaling fleets' illegal slaughter of over a thousand whales. With its newly acquired ship named the M/Y...
In Taiji, the fishermen say that dolphin tastes like venison or beef. But eaten raw with a dab of ginger and soy sauce, the glistening dark flesh resembles liver, with a coppery aftertaste that...
BITE BACK 30 / 12 / 06
BITE BACK - Commercial Whaling
By John Nightingale
Iceland's announcement of its intention to resume commercial whaling, immediately followed by the slaughter of...
Southeast Asia's voracious appetite for shark fin soup may be contributing to a dramatic drop in the number of reef sharks in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a marine scientist says.
Dr Sean...
The Island of Bali in Indonesia has been the hub of the sea turtle trade for two decades. The buyers of turtle meat, shells and eggs are mainly found in the Asian markets as well as in Indonesia...
Immense numbers of sharks each year are slaughtered for their fins-not meat, just their fins. This harvest helps feed a growing appetite throughout Asia for a popular soup, one with snob appeal...
THE carcasses of three sharks and a stingray have been found dead on Bluewater Bay Beach in a return to the bad old days of needless slaughter on our beaches.
Angry dive tour operator Rainer...
Up to four times more sharks than previously thought are being slaughtered to fill the increasing demand for shark fin soup, scientists said on Wednesday.
They estimate that each year between 26...
Canada's commercial seal "hunt" is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world.
Canada's 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial...
Every year from October through April fishermen in some remote Japanese villages eradicate about 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in the most brutal way imaginable. This is the largest massacre of...
The deliberate killing of 3,000 turtles a year on the island of Bali, and the horrific way in which they are slaughtered, has prompted calls for a boycott of the island until this trade has ended....
Illegal fishing may have caused the accidental deaths of about 200 green turtles in the protected area of Playa Ostional, in Costa Rica s Pacific coast, Gilbert Rojas, from the area s Association...
What to do about the Japanese dolphin slaughter: Sign another petition? Protest? Or pack? There is only so much that one can do with all the various marine mammal issues. The question is: How do we...
For some strange perverse reason that only the so-called Japanese "scientists" can explain, 60 percent of all the female whales taken this last year in Antarctica were pregnant.
The...
The Island of Bali in Indonesia has been the turntable for the sea turtle trade for two decades. The buyers of meat, tortoiseshells and eggs are mainly found on the Asian markets as well as in the...
Less than 1 month after the UN General Assembly BINDING vote, the resolution was frustrated (ignored) by Japan and other Asian based industrial long line fishing boats during a December 12 to 17,...
The United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/31, enacted on November 29, 2005, REQUIRES all Member Nations to close or suspend fishing activities along documented Leatherback Turtle...
With Canada preparing to go full-speed ahead on its annual seal hunt, Friends of Animals today unveiled an international tourism boycott to press the Canadian government to stop the kill....
Last year the Canadian seal slaughter realized $16 million in income to East Coast seal killers.
This year, Sea Shepherd member and supporter Kathy Kangas has offered $16 million to compensate...
Hundreds of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed or shot without mercy this year alone-an annual harp seal slaughter subsidized by the Canadian government.
95% of the harp seals killed are...
BLOOD is spreading across the ice. Obscene scarlet on pure white.
At the stroke of 6am yesterday - right on schedule - Canada's annual slaughter of the seal pups got under way.
It's the...
It was the catch of the day for two Indonesian fishermen, Muji and Kastan, when they hauled back a 500-kilogramme pregnant Tiger Shark to Jerudong shore from Champion 7...
