Enviromentalists, especially those against whaling or even the maiming of whales, literally had escalating sea battles with Japan’s fleets of whaling boats in international waters. Enviromental activists from Sea Sheperd, an agency for the conserva...
SM AIRPORT — Owners of sushi restaurant The Hump admit to selling customers banned whale meat, issuing an apology on their Web site. The U.S. Attorney's Office filed misdemeanor charges Wednesday against the owners of The Hump and its sister restaura...
Dubuque native admits he was nervous after picking up a statuette for best documentary.BY ERIK HOGSTROM TH STAFF WRITERThe viewing public saw Dubuque native Louie Psihoyos lift an Oscar for his award-winning film "The Cove."They didn't see the behind-t...
AFTER years of fruitless efforts to penetrate the facade of Japan's scientific whaling, Greenpeace in January 2008 stumbled across a rare opportunity: a whistleblower. An investigation by Greenpeace Japan's Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, based on the ...
I admit I'm sympathetic to Sea Shepherd's cause, but this all is just getting weirder and weirder: The latest is that the Japanese Coast Guard has arrested the captain of the sunken Ady Gil Pete Bethune. For the past month or so since Bethune boarded o...
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The Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru 2 arrived in Tokyo today with the first New Zealand prisoner of war to be transported to Japan as a political prisoner since World War II.As soon as his foot touched Japanese soil, Captain Bethune reestablished him...
GREENS leader Bob Brown has vowed to back an international campaign to free an anti-whaling activist arrested in Japan.Sea Shepherd activist Peter Bethune was arrested by Japanese authorities when the whaling patrol boat Shonan Maru 2 that he boarded with...
The plan to bust the Hump restaurant in Santa Monica was launched months ago when Sea Shepherd Outreach Coordinator Zoli Teglas first told me about a Santa Monica restaurant serving whale meat. I thought he was joking.But it was not a joke, and Zoli se...
TOKYO — The Japanese Coast Guard on Friday arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand who had boarded a whaling ship in the southern Antarctic last month.Peter Bethune, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was brought back to To...
As readers of these posts know, there is a distinct passion for all things cetacean evident in my writings. So it came as a shock -- on many different levels -- to find out that a trendy Santa Monica sushi bar was caught by a combination of activists an...
READERS from both pro- and anti-whaling camps are already taking issue with my column this week on Japan’s whaling policies. So let me begin with a confession akin to admitting that for generations the men in my family have not only beaten t...
The story of the humpback whale, and its remarkable recovery after too many years with the species caught in the crosshairs of industrial whaling operations, offers some hope for the many ecosystems we've left damaged and in fragments in our ever-expan...
Louis Psihoyos, the former National Geographic photographer who won an Oscar on Sunday for “ The Cove,” his first documentary film, sat down for a conversation with me at the Asia Society on Tuesday on various aspects of the ongoing slau...
A New Zealand anti-whaling activist was arrested in Japan Friday after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, greeted by police and nationalist protesters.Peter Bethune, of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ...
CHIBA, JAPAN – JUNE 21: Japanese Fishermen slaughter a 9.95m Baird’s Beaked whale at Wada Port on June 21, 2007 in Chiba, Japan. Under the coastal whaling program, Japan is only allowed to hunt a limited number of whales every year and Wadaura village...
Japan's coastguard has arrested the captain of the Sea Shepherd protest ship Ady Gil for illegally boarding a Japanese whaling vessel last month, an official said.Pete Bethune is accused of jumping aboard the whaling vessel from a jet ski on February 15 i...
Kiwi anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune has been arrested in Japan after being held on the whaling vessel he boarded last month. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society member has been charged with trespassing after boarding the Shonan Maru 2 - the ship whi...
AN anti-whaling activist from New Zealand was arrested in Japan for for trespassing after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, the coastguard said. "He was arrested on the whaling ship and will be transferred to the co...
