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Another victory in the Southern Ocean! Operation Divine Wind has come to an end. We are grateful for your support.

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The Whalers Head Home!

The Whalers Head Home!

The Japanese Whaling Fleet Leaves the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Operation Divine Wind is over! The Japanese whalers are going home! Read More

The Night Attack of the Yushins

The Night Attack of the Yushins

As the Bob Barker was closing in on the fleeing Nisshin Maru, the floating Japanese abattoir illegally hunting whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, two harpoon vessels Yushin Maru... Read More

Eureka! The Whaling Fleet Has Been Found and Shut Down!

Eureka! The Whaling Fleet Has Been Found and Shut Down!

Captain Paul Watson received a Sat phone call from Captain Peter Hammarstedt, on the Bob Barker, at 2200 Hours (AEST) on March 5th. “Eureka, Paul, we have the Nisshin Maru... Read More

Sea Shepherd Ploy Leaves Two Frustrated Japanese Whaling Captains Looking Silly at Sea

Sea Shepherd Ploy Leaves Two Frustrated Japanese Whaling Captains Looking Silly at Sea

Since February 22nd, The Sea Shepherd ship, Steve Irwin, has led a Japanese harpoon vessel and the Japanese whaling fleet security vessel on a merry wild goose chase away from... Read More

Sea Shepherd Moves Refueling Operation to Auckland Island

Sea Shepherd Moves Refueling Operation to Auckland Island

The Yushin Maru No. 3 is sitting on the East side of Macquarie Island and the Shonan Maru No. 2 is sitting on the West side of Macquarie Island. Read More

Sea Shepherd Ships Refuel for a Return to the Chase

Sea Shepherd Ships Refuel for a Return to the Chase

The Sea Shepherd ship, Bob Barker, departed yesterday from Wellington, New Zealand to return to the Southern Ocean. Read More

ICR’s injunction is denied in U.S. District Court

February 16 was a successful day in court for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In Seattle the Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) presented their preliminary injunction in the case of the... Read More

The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back

If Whale Wars were Star Wars, this season would be called The Empire Strikes Back. Read More

A Dangerous Pursuit through a Maze of Ice

A Dangerous Pursuit through a Maze of Ice

or three stressful days, the Sea Shepherd ship, Steve Irwin, has been leading the Japanese harpoon vessel, Yushin Maru No. 3, deeper into the pack ice of the northeast part... Read More

Sea Shepherd Crewmember knocked into frigid Antarctic waters by Japanese Water Cannon

Sea Shepherd Crewmember knocked into frigid Antarctic waters by Japanese Water Cannon

Beck Straussner (42) of the United States was knocked off his jet ski by the Yushin Maru No. 2 in a confrontation between whalers and whale defenders in the waters... Read More

Sea Shepherd to Pursue the Japanese Whaling fleet until the End of March

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been pursuing the Japanese whaling fleet for sixty days. The Steve Irwin has covered 13,000 nautical miles and the Bob Barker has covered 14,500... Read More

The Boarding of the Shonan Maru No. 2 was a Huge Success

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson. Australia's Forest Rescue Activists' boarding of the Shonan Maru #2 provided Sea Shepherd with more than distance. Read More

Sea Shepherd Chases the Japanese Whalers into Yesterday

Sea Shepherd Chases the Japanese Whalers into Yesterday

The Japanese whaling fleet are not where they should be this time of year. Last year the fleet was operating in the Ross Sea. This year their “scientific survey” was... Read More

Help Sea Shepherd Launch a Third Large Whale Protection Ship

The key to 100% success in stopping illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean is to match the whaling ships one on one. Read More

Three Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Injured in Skirmish with Japanese Harpoon Vessel

Three Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Injured in Skirmish with Japanese Harpoon Vessel

The Japanese whalers have escalated their aggression by using bamboo spears and iron grappling hooks as weapons against the Steve Irwin boat crew. Read More

Much Ado About Nothing

The Prime Minister and Attorney General of Australia speak as though the Australian treasury is bankrupt due to the amount of money that it cost to retrieve the three Forest... Read More

Home from the Sea; Home to the Trees

Home from the Sea; Home to the Trees

Forest Rescue activists return home to Albany, Western Australia but one activist was not free to join the other two men. Upon arrival he was immediately taken to prison for... Read More

Focusing Attention on Things that Matter is Always Positive

Captain Watson addresses criticism over the recent boarding of a Japanese whaling security ship by members of Forest Rescue. Read More

Australian Protesters Safely Transferred to ACV Ocean Protector

Media statement by the Attorney General's office regarding the transfer of Australian activists, along with Captain Watson's replies. Read More

Humane Society International Reminds Australia that Japanese Whalers are Illegal in Australian Territorial Waters

Statement from Humane Society International, the organization that successfully took the Japanese whalers to court and received a court order banning the Japanese whalers from Australian Territorial waters. Read More

From Garrett to Gillard – A Government of Broken Promises

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her government must bear responsibility for the escalating confrontations between whalers and anti-whalers. Read More

Tokyo’s Illegal Invasion of World Heritage Area Continues

Tokyo’s Illegal Invasion of World Heritage Area Continues

Early this morning the Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru III was holding fast in Australia’s World Heritage Area and territorial waters off Macquarie Island. This is despite a call from... Read More

Sea Shepherd Dancing Dangerously With the Outlaw Whaling Fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary

Sea Shepherd Dancing Dangerously With the Outlaw Whaling Fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary

The nautical chess pieces continue to move and the board keeps changing in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The Shonan Maru #2 is no longer chasing the Steve Irwin. The... Read More

The Shonan Maru Boarding Incident

Timeline of Events that occurred during the boarding of the Shonan Maru #2 Read More

Australian Government Solution Unnecessarily Expensive

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney General Nicola Roxon said during a media conference that the recovery of Geoffrey Tuxworth, Simon Peterffy and Glen Pendlebury from the Japanese whaling security... Read More

Heroes of Forest and Sea to be Freed

Forest Rescue activists Geoffrey Tuxworth, Simon Peterffy and Glen Pendlebury will not be charged with any crime and will not be taken to Japan. Read More

Japanese Harpoon Vessel enters the Australian Twelve Mile Limit

Japanese Harpoon Vessel enters the Australian Twelve Mile Limit

Emboldened by their ability to enter the Australian contiguous zone without penalty, where they subsequently detained and removed three Australian citizens, the Japanese have now taken things one step further... Read More

Australian Whale Defenders On Their Way to Antarctica Against Their Will

Australian Whale Defenders On Their Way to Antarctica Against Their Will

Forest Rescue activists Geoffrey Tuxworth, Simon Peterffy and Glen Pendlebury have just left the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone onboard the Shonan Maru #2. They are now in international waters heading... Read More

Our Sincere Apologies, Prime Minister

Our apologies, Prime Minister. I’m sorry we were not racing around the world trying to establish a world record on a ten million dollar sailing vessel that was wrecked by... Read More

32° 57” 48” South and 115° 20’ 24” East

This is the position of the Shonan Maru #2 when boarded by the three brave activists from Forest Rescue at 0430 hours on January 8th. Read More

The Bullshit Politics of Betrayal

Yesterday, Australians Geoffrey Tuxworth, Simon Peterffy and Glen Pendlebury were made expendable political scapegoats to appease the Japanese. Read More

Three Australian Prisoners Now Detained on a Japanese Whaler in Australian Waters

Three Australian Prisoners Now Detained on a Japanese Whaler in Australian Waters

The Steve Irwin assists Forest Rescue activists in boarding the Japanese whaling fleet vessel the Shonan Maru #2 Read More

Forest Rescue men go out on a limb for Sea Shepherd

Geoffrey Tuxworth, Simon Peterffy and Glen Pendlebury came to me in Fremantle with a request for support to board the Shonan Maru #2. “We can help you get that poacher... Read More

Appeal to Nations to Take Action to Protect All Lives in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary

espite worldwide disapproval since the late 1970s, nations of the world have not managed to stop Japan from continuing their barbaric and unnecessary slaughter of whales. Read More

Australia Approves the Use of Drones by Sea Shepherd

Antarctica is No Longer a Drone-free Zone. Sea Shepherd has received approval from Australia to deploy drones in the Southern Ocean. Read More

Crew Taken Off the Brigitte Bardot

Hit with deteriorating weather conditions, Captain Paul Watson has ordered the evacuation of most of the crew off the Brigitte Bardot and onto the Steve Irwin. Read More

Bob Barker Moves In on the Japanese Whaling Fleet in French Antarctic Waters

Bob Barker Moves In on the Japanese Whaling Fleet in French Antarctic Waters

At 04.00 am (AEAT) on Wednesday January 4th, the Bob Barker moved in amongst the Japanese whaling fleet 190 miles North of the French Antarctic base of Dumont D'Urville. Read More

Operation Divine Wind Update

Operation Divine Wind Update

The Steve Irwin and the Brigitte Bardot are struggling slowly northward through another storm. Read More

Sea Shepherd Ship Severely Damaged by Rogue Wave

Sea Shepherd Ship Severely Damaged by Rogue Wave

While fighting heavy seas in pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet, the Sea Shepherd scout vessel Brigitte Bardot was struck by a rogue wave that has cracked the hull and... Read More

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