Conservationists suspend 'whale wars' with Japan until next year

Monday 09th February, 11:55 PM JST

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kwatt at 07:44 PM JST - 10th February

Good-Bye guys! Yeah You! Take care. Stay home. ((((((( Don't come back )))))))
Marlor at 08:34 AM JST - 11th February

I'm not saying the research is illegal. It is, unfortunately, legal under the IWC guidelines.

I'm just saying those guidelines are broken. They wouldn't pass even the most permissive ethics board in the "real world".
AlfGarnett at 09:30 AM JST - 11th February

Ktwatt: They will be back. Bigger, better, stronger and with more support, especially when the world watches the videos they tooked.

Strewth, Japan won't have long left for whaling, the world aint going to allow the barbaric practise continue like.
kwatt at 12:55 PM JST - 11th February

Alfgarnett - I don't mind at all. SS is going to Australia. SS guys might be arrested by Australian police because of what you know. They will not come back if they are in jail. I say "Good luck" for them.
OssanAmerica at 04:28 AM JST - 12th February

SS is over. The bad publicity from their RAMMING operation and the shortage of contributions will put Watson the lunatic away.

The IWC's view of Sea Shepherd: "Dismissed from the IWC After the sinking of the Icelandic whaling vessels in 1986, Sea Shepherd lost its status as observer at the IWC. The organisation claims that it is merely enforcing IWC rules. In February 1994, IWC Secretary, Ray Gambell, declared to NTB (the Norwegian Telegram Agency) that the IWC and all its member states ardently condemn Sea Shepherd’s acts of terrorism." http://www.highnorth.no/library/movements/Sea_Shepherd/se-sh-re.htm

What Greenpeace thinks of Sea Shephered: "We passionately want to stop whaling, and will do so peacefully. That's why we won't help Sea Shepherd. Greenpeace is committed to non-violence and we'll never, ever, change that; not for anything. If we helped Sea Shepherd to find the whaling fleet we'd be responsible for anything they did having got that information, and history shows that they've used violence in the past, in the most dangerous seas on Earth." http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/paul-watson-sea-shepherd-and
TokyoHustla at 04:30 AM JST - 12th February

Ossan has a point. Whaling in the South Ocean is wrong but SS has made themselfs look bad. We need a new brand of hustlaz to go down there and show them what time it is.
Zenpun at 09:11 AM JST - 12th February

In the reality, conservation movement will be waned in the overtime. Private sponsors are broke and not interested in funding for them anymore. There are negative publicity about the anti whalers too. So far their confrontation approach were fruitless. They need to find the alternative way.
OssanAmerica at 04:02 AM JST - 13th February

The title of this article is wrong. It should not read CONSERVATIONISTS SUSPEND WHALE WARS. That would be right if Greenpeace or any other law respecting organization were involved. The correct title should be ECO TERRORISTS SUSPEND WHALE WARS. Whoever came up with headline also doesn't know the difference between what a "conservationist" is and a "protectionist". Conservationists aim to maintain the population at a certain amount and by necessity include controlled culling as a tool to reach that goal. Protectionists simply want no killing at all period for whatever reason.
davidattokyo at 01:09 PM JST - 13th February

Ossan, I made the same point myself (at 11:00 AM JST - 10th February) but to no avail.

People should also not forget who it is shooting footage for a TV show with the word "war" in the name.
OssanAmerica at 04:10 AM JST - 14th February

david

It's a shame that most rational thinking seems to go out the window when any whale issue comes up. People lose all sense of logic, reason, morals, civility, respect for law and order, and most sickeningly, respect for fellow human beings.
AlfGarnett at 04:40 AM JST - 14th February

Ktwatt: Australians is much more likely to arrest the Japanese terrorists, who rammed the SEa Shepherd. The SEa Shepherd has saved hundreds of whales from dying a lingering death just to satisfy some old fools in Tokyo restaurants.

Bravo SEa Shepherd, whales is beautifull and you are helping save them.
illsayit at 08:35 AM JST - 14th February

Conservationists especially from a Australia have a big lesson to learn from them fires. Everybody knows how noisy they were in Victoria regarding clearing forests to protect people from bushfires. One man was charged 2 years ago for chopping down tress ON HIS OWN property-he has a criminal charge for the act, RIDICULOUS. During the recent bushfires his place was the only one left standing in the street! Conservationists should learn to conserve human life. I believe it is different to animals and plants, and if they have any problems with that , I am not against them doing genocide, if they feel that strongly about it.
OssanAmerica at 09:22 AM JST - 14th February

Australians is much more likely to arrest the Japanese terrorists, who >rammed the SEa Shepherd.

AS I said...
Kwaabish at 02:06 AM JST - 15th February

”the Japanese terrorists, who rammed the SEa Shepherd”・・・

Wow... so the new theory is that SS craft Steve Irwin must have been rammed in the bow by Yushin Maru's stern going full reverse?

What an asinine statement....
funkymofo at 04:52 PM JST - 16th February

Actually, it's not an asinine statement at all. Perspectives on the water often look different depending on which boat you're on in a situation such as this. The Sea Shepherd crew may well be guilty of naughtiness on the high seas, but until they are charged and tried, perhaps you and others should settle down. We might also question the tactics of the whalers, I wonder whether they'll really want to start proceedings considering the rather thin ice they're skating on legally- not to mention their use of military grade acoustic weapons on aircraft in a protected wilderness.