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Recent Sea Shepherd News and Commentary:

Dec 19, 2012 - Life in the Namib Desert - Commentary by Rosie Kunneke and Dinielle Stöckigt - Growing up in Africa, camping out is part of your childhood. Sleeping in tents in designated camping sites is exciting and being so close to nature makes you realize what is important in life. Namibia’s desert, however, is a tough and unforgiving place. Home to ever-changing sand dunes, which bring winds that can fill your lungs with sand if you don’t cover your mouth with some kind of cloth. Namib Desert means “place of no people” in the local KhoiKhoi language. This was our home for several weeks.... read more

Bloody and Brutal Namibian Seal Hunt Season Ends - Each year governments, corporations and industries go to further lengths to prevent us from preserving life on this planet. We have faced (and still do) some formidable evil, but the slaughter of baby animals, crudely bludgeoned to death, surely is a new low for mankind....read more

September 15, 2012 - O.R.C.A. Force Stealth Mission a Success - O.R.C.A. Force has successfully captured video footage and images of the Namibian seal slaughter at Cape Cross. Its team’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) departed after the seal clubbers arrived at the Cape fur seal reserve, just moments after dawn ... read more

August 28, 2012 - O.R.C.A. Force’s Unmanned Aircraft Makes Successful Test Flight Over Cape Cross Seal Colony - During the early hours of the Namibian morning Sea Shepherd’s UAV made a first-ever flight over the seal colony where each morning hundreds of baby seals are brutally clubbed to death. ...read more

June 4, 2012 - Namibia's Shameful Secret - By Rosie Kunneke, Nikki Botha and Dinielle Stöckigt (Sea Shepherds from South Africa and Operation Desert Seal team members) - Every year it is the same heart-breaking story. Come June/July, the powers that be in Namibia give their blessing for the start of the cruelest seal cull in the world. ... read more

April 13, 2012 - Namibia Trots Out Old and Useless Tricks to Defend the Seal Slaughter - Commentary by Captain Paul Watson - It is an old Wise Use tactic from the Reagan era to create organizations that sound like they are for conservation but, in fact, represent just the opposite. It appears that this tactic is now being used in Namibia where a group called Namibia Seal Conservation has been formed... Read More

Sept 26, 2011 - Reflections on Meeting with the Namibian Ombudsman - Commentary by Nikki Botha - After years of campaigning against the unsubstantiated, annual seal harvest in Namibia, things finally came to a head when the ombudsman called for a consultation meeting to be held between... Read More

Sept 22, 2011 - Sea Shepherd Continues to Fight in Defense of Namibia’s Seals - Sea Shepherd received an official letter from Namibian Ombudsman John Walters earlier today...confirming that next year’s seal slaughter will proceed as planned... Read More

Sept 21, 2011 - Sea Shepherd Meets the Voice of the Namibian People - Sea Shepherd returned to Windhoek, Namibia to meet with the country’s Ombudsman to demand the end to the seal slaughter... Read More

Sept 8, 2011 - Is Namibian Resolve to Slaughter Seals Eroding? - The pressure on the Namibian government to end the annual slaughter has led to an invitation for Sea Shepherd to attend what may be a pivotal meeting in Namibia to discuss the issue with the Ombudsman and other stakeholders... Read More

Aug 26, 2011 - The Makings of Operation Desert Seal - Commentary by Pat Dickens - I am often asked how I got involved with Sea Shepherd. I remember that day very clearly, the first of June 2010... Read More

Aug 24, 2011 - A Unique Sea Shepherd Adventure in Namibia - Commentary by Andre Menache - Here I was, a 50-something veterinary surgeon quietly minding my own business in London, when out of the blue, I received a call from Sea Shepherd’s UK Coordinator asking if... Read More

July 26, 2011 - Challenging Death on the Beaches of Namibia - It’s not often that a small conservation organization gets accused of being a threat to the national security of an entire nation... Read More

July 28, 2011 - Sea Shepherd Operation Desert Seal - not for the Fainthearted - Commentary by Steve Roest - For the last month, I have had a team in Namibia working to document the horrific slaughter of the South African (Cape) fur seals in a campaign we have aptly... Read More

March 15, 2011 - Namibia’s Deadly Little Secret: the Cape Fur Seal Cull - Commentary by Pat Dickens - Namibia’s Deadly Little Secret: the Cape Fur Seal Cull Commentary by Pat Dickens, Sea Shepherd South Africa Coordinator The Cape Fur Seal colony on Namibia’s coastIn less than four months... Read More