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Das Überleben auf diesem Planeten / Gesunde Umwelt, gesunde Ernaehrung => Rettet die Natur! => Topic started by: ama on January 16, 2008, 06:03:46 PM
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Operation Migaloo:
Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign 2007-08
Thanks for getting us there...
The whales count on us to protect them.
Breaking News from the Campaign
Japanese Whaling Fleet On the Run With Two Sea Shepherd Hostages
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship Steve Irwin is in full
pursuit of five vessels of the Japanese whaling fleet including the
Japanese supply vessel Oriental Bluebird.
The Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin
Maru No. 2 has taken two Sea Shepherd volunteer crew members hostage.
Benjamin Potts 28, an Australian citizen and Giles Lane, 35, a citizen of
Great Britain are being held hostage onboard the whaling vessel. Both men
were assaulted and then tied to the railings of the whaler. They were then
moved and tied to the radar mast by the whalers.
Both men boarded the Yushin Maru to deliver a message to the Japanese
captain that the whalers were in violation of international conservation
law by targeting endangered species in an established whale sanctuary in
violation of a global moratorium on commercial whaling. They also notified
the captain that Australia had just passed a court ruling barring Japanese
whalers from the Australian Antarctic Economic Exclusion Zone.
Readthe full article here
http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080115_3.html
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Sea Shepherd News
News Releases
01/15/2008
Japanese Whaling Fleet On the Run With Two Sea Shepherd Hostages
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship Steve Irwin is in full
pursuit of five vessels of the Japanese whaling fleet
including the Japanese supply vessel Oriental Bluebird.
The Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin
Maru No. 2 has taken two Sea Shepherd volunteer crew members hostage.
Benjamin Potts 28, an Australian citizen and Giles Lane, 35, a citizen of
Great Britain are being held hostage onboard the whaling vessel. Both men
were assaulted and then tied to the railings of the whaler. They were then
moved and tied to the radar mast by the whalers.
Both men boarded the Yushin Maru to deliver a message to the Japanese
captain that the whalers were in violation of international conservation
law by targeting endangered species in an established whale sanctuary in
violation of a global moratorium on commercial whaling. They also
notified the captain that Australia had just passed a court ruling barring
Japanese whalers from the Australian Antarctic Economic Exclusion Zone.
All of this activity has taken place in the area of 60 Degrees South and
78 Degrees East. All activity has been documented from the Sea Shepherd
helicopter and the fast moving Delta vessel. The Steve Irwin has
dispatched a small fast Delta boat and a helicopter to attempt to persuade
the Yushin Maru No. 2 to stop and release the hostages.
Captain Paul Watson has notified the Australian Federal Police that he
would like to see kidnapping charges brought against the Japanese whalers.
The Australian government and the British Embassy have been informed that
their citizens are being held hostage on an illegally operated Japanese
whaling ship in International waters.
The Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru has fled over 700 miles to the
Northwest and is heading towards South Africa accompanied by the
Greenpeace ship Esperanza. The entire whaling fleet is on the run and
outside of the whaling area with the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin in hot
pursuit of five vessels of the Japanese fleet.
No whales have been slaughtered for the last four days and it does not
look as if the whaling operations are going to begin again for another
week at least, and not at all if the vessels are prevented from regrouping.
The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin has a good supply of fuel and can remain
in the area for some time and will continue to police the illegal
whaling operations by the Japanese fleet.
Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson will turn over authority to the
Australian government to enforce the court ruling against illegal whaling
in the Australian Antarctic Economic Exclusion Zone upon request from the
Australian government and an agreement that Australia will enforce the
court's ruling to bar all Japanese whaling activities in the Australian
Antarctic Territory.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society welcomes your support.
To learn how to support our conservation work, please visit
our donation page.
P.O. Box 2616
Friday Harbor
WA 98250 (USA)
Tel: 360-370-5650
Fax: 360-370-5651
Copyright © 2008 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. All rights reserved.
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SPIEGEL ONLINE
17. Januar 2008, 16:50 Uhr
DRAMA IM EISMEER
Australier wollen gefangene Walschützer befreien
Im eisigen Südpolarmeer vor der Küste der Antarktis spielt sich ein Drama ab: Radikale Walschützer bedrängen seit Tagen Japans Fangflotte - nun wurden zwei von ihnen an Bord eines Harpunenschiffes festgesetzt. Die australische Regierung hat ein Schiff zu ihrer Befreiung geschickt.
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mehr:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,529292,00.html
ZUM THEMA AUF SPIEGEL ONLINE:
Antarktis: Aktivisten drohen, Walfänger zu rammen (14.01.2008)
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,528417,00.html
Antarktis: Walfänger kollidiert mit Tierschützer-Schiff (12.02.2007)
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,465801,00.html
Streit um Artenschutz: Japan erpresst Walfangkommission (29.05.2007)
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,485400,00.html
Gefangene Walschützer sind frei
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,529363,00.html
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Sea Shepherd News
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Sea Shepherd Drives Japanese Whalers
Out of Australia's Waters
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship Steve
Irwin has driven the Japanese whaling fleet out of the
Australian Economic Exclusion Zone.
"We have chased the whalers for over 800 miles since
last Saturday through bad weather and heavy ice
conditions," said Captain Paul Watson. "They have fled
eastward and they are continuing eastward and we are
on their tail and we will keep on their tail."
Since finding the Japanese whaling fleet on December
20th, the Steve Irwin has had close encounters with the
harpoon vessel Yushin Maru #2 and the spotting vessel
Kaiko Maru and has observed and tracked the Nisshin
Maru from the air.
The Steve Irwin has not been able to close with the
main body of the fleet because they keep moving
eastward. They have not been whaling since Sea
Shepherd located them and they are not whaling now.
They continue to flee.
The good news is that they are no longer whaling in
Australian waters and they only managed to hunt in the
waters of the Australian Antarctic Territory for about a
week before being forced to flee the Australian EEZ.
They are now in the waters of the Ross Dependency
and the Steve Irwin is in pursuit.
"What is now good news for the whales in Australian
waters is now bad news for the whales in the waters
south of New Zealand," said Captain Watson. "They
are still targeting endangered and protected whales in the
waters of an established international whale sanctuary
and thus they are still in violation of international
conservation law and acting under the principles of the
United Nations World Charter for Nature, we will
continue to pursue, harass and intervene against their
blatantly illegal lethal assaults on the whales."
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship Steve
Irwin has fuel and provisions to chase the whalers well
into the middle of January before having to return to
New Zealand to refuel. If forced to return to refuel, the
Steve Irwin will do so and then will immediately return
to the whaling area to continue to pursue, harass and
intervene against illegal Japanese whaling activities."
The Steve Irwin has a crew of 40 international
volunteers plus an Animal Planet film crew onboard
producing the 2nd year of the series Whale Wars.
Last year the Sea Shepherd crew pursued the Japanese
whaling fleet from early December until mid-March.
That intervention cost the whalers over $70 million in
lost profits and saved almost 500 whales.
P.O. Box 2616, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
(USA) Tel: 360-370-5650 Â Fax: 360-370-5651
All contents copyright ©2008 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
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Monday, 29 December 2008 | 02:33 PM
Whalers claim Sea Shepherd is not stopping whale cull
29th December 2008, 11:00 WST
The body responsible for the Japanese whaling fleet's annual whale cull
has described the conservation group Sea Shepherd as "mere sand fly bite"
and say this season's slaughter of whales has not been slowed by the
presence of anti-whaling activists.
The comments by the Institute of Cetacean Research follow claims by Sea
Shepherd that the Japanese whaling fleet is on the run and have been
prevented from killing whales.
Captain of the Sea Shepherd's vessel Steve Irwin, Paul Watson said his
ship was in pursuit of the factory ship Nisshin Maru and while the factory
ship was on the move the fleet could not kill whales.
He said the Nisshin Maru was sailing well east of its normal hunting
grounds and was in New Zealand territorial waters in the Ross Sea.
"We have been pursuing them for nine days and in that time they haven't
been able to kill any whales. We have chased them over 1000 miles (1600
kilometres). We are now in the Ross Sea," Capt Watson said.
"If we keep the Nisshin Maru on the run it shuts down their whole
operation."
Capt Watson said the fleet would probably have killed around 30 whales
before Sea Shepherd found them a week after the start of the season. Since
then the fleet had been unable to take any whales, he said.
Spokesperson for the ICR Glenn Inwood said the fleet was sailing to the
Ross Sea to undertake "lethal whale research" and intended to take its
quota of 850 minke whales this season.
"The Sea Shepherd are 150 kilometres behind. How is that having the fleet
on the run? There is more than one vessel in the fleet and research is
continuing," Mr Inwood said.
He said the slaughter of whales using harpoons that exploded inside the
whale's head was "humane" and the cull "sustainable."
"Public opinion in Australia does not matter," Mr Inwood said.
He said the ICR did not recognise Australia's nor New Zealand's claims to
any territorial waters off Antarctica.
Capt Watson said Sea Shepherd would not stop its frontline campaign to
save around 1000 whales from slaughter this season.
"We will need to refuel sometime in January and when we leave the area the
fleet will be able to kill whales but we will be coming back," Capt Watson
said.
PERTH
JANE HAMMOND
"The West Australian" is a trademark of West Australian Newspapers Limited
2008. All Rights Reserved
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Wäre das nicht eine Idee: "Kauft nur noch deutsche Autos!"
Würde vielleicht auch ein paar Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland retten, so nebenbei. Muß aber nicht sein. Das Geld für Hartz IV fällt ja vom Himmel, Maddoff zeigt, wie das gemacht wird...
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