THE only protest vessel set to disrupt Japan\\\'s annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters has arrived in Newcastle, December 06, 2008, with crew expecting an even tougher confrontation than last year.Stopping for fuel and oil, Canadian captain Paul Watson said the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society\\\'s vessel, the Steve Irwin, would head off to harass a fleet of eight Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean late on Saturday night.Captain Watson said he was expecting more heated scenes than he experienced a year ago, when two Sea Shepherd activists claimed they were mistreated by Japanese whalers after they boarded a harpoon boat to deliver an anti-whaling letter.After the pair was released, anti-whaling activists admitted to having thrown about 12 stink bombs at a Japanese whaling ship. As soon as we catch up with them (Japanese whalers) I\\\'m sure there will be a confrontation with them, Captain Watson said.We expect the Japanese whalers will be more aggressive this year than last, because they are becoming increasingly more difficult because they are losing more and more money.He said the Rudd Government had not shown support for his attempts to stop Japan\\\'s annual whale hunt.We don\\\'t have any bullet-proof vests because the Australian Government wouldn\\\'t let us bring them in, so that puts our crew\\\'s lives at risk, but we\\\'ll take whatever precautions we can, he said.He described the Government\\\'s attitude towards his mission as hostile. They\\\'ve been very passive-aggressive in trying to force us out of the country, he said.They\\\'ve been totally uncooperative. My crew and I have been hassled about immigration.We didn\\\'t have this problem with the previous government. It\\\'s ironic, considering I actually pushed for so many people to vote for Rudd and (Federal Environment Minister Peter) Garrett.Captain Watson said the Steve Irwin would stop in Hobart for more fuel and oil before it entered the Southern Ocean.He expects to catch up with the Japanese whalers between December 18 and December 25.A third of the 48 crew and passengers on board the Steve Irwin are from Australia. Others are from the US including actress Daryl Hannah and from Japan.Eight of those aboard the vessel are filming a program commissioned by Discovery Channel\\\'s program, Whale Wars.Captain Watson expects to remain at sea from December through to March. [More] [Less]

Under two months Japan is coming back to the Antarctic Whale sanctuary for another 1000 whales. This includes endangered species and random sampling. Random sampling is when they hunt any whale they see including calves and mothers. A mother once lost its calf and fasted it self for several days while drifting in the water. Not only does the mother get depressed but through their social networking, which is very complex and can\\\'t be understood by humans, other whales get depressed. The whales they kill in the Antarctic swim right past australia and give birth in our waters. We protect them, then when they are swming back to antarctica the japanese kill them which can take up to 30 mins. These whales were born in Asutralia! What are you going to do Australia? Are you going to let another 1000 whales die?Are you just gonna sit there?TOGETHER WE CAN STOP WHALINGhttp://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/ [More] [Less]

The Red Paintings hit the studio with New York producer Tidy Kid and the Sea Shepherd crew members the night before the crew left for Antarctic waters to tackle Japanese whaling ships. The recording is an important statement for the Sea Shepherd\'s Operation Musashi campaign made through song and it is a statement that they want the whole world to hear. Local artists Maaike Johnson, Moogie Blyth and Adele Walker were in the studio when the band recorded this song, painting the experience on canvas. The song and the paintings will be released in January 2009 on a limited edition 7\" white vinyl with a remix of the band\'s latest single, \"We Belong in the Sea\". Only 150 copies will be pressed. Stay tuned for ordering information. http://www.seashepherd.org/http://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/credits released 01 January 2009 Performed by The Red Paintings. Recorded/Produced by Tidy Kid. Additional vocals on \"Whales Are Dying\" by the international crew from the boat, including Australian director Jeff Hansen, UK director Steve Roest & Chinese photographer Adam Lau. [More] [Less]

This video is in tribute to the 1000 whales that die every year due to corrupted governemnts.Japan was once again has left the japanese port ready to kill other 1000 whales. Including endangered species, pregnant mothers and calves.Greenpace nor Australian Customs will be gonig down this year, only Sea Shepherds ship \"M/Y Steve Irwin\". The only protectrion that these whales have got is Sea Shepherd. Even though Japan is breaking numorous international treaties the worlds governments do nothing.The only way we can stop this is together. http://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/http://www.seashepherdforum.org/http://www.seashepherd.org/ [More] [Less]

The Nisshin Maru is blasting the crew on the Steve Irwin with high pressure water hoses and LRAD sonic weapons. The harpoon vessels are passing closer and closer before the bow of the Steve Irwin to block the Sea Shepherd ship from interfering with their whaling operations.The crew are a little dazed and dizzy from the LRAD\'s and many of them have been drenched with freezing water.Australian Senate condemns the violent actions by the Japanese whaling fleet against Sea Shepherd Senator Siewert: I move:That the Senate-(a) notes that:(i) on 25 November 2008, the Senate urged the Australian Government to set a timeline for legal proceedings in an international court to stop illegal Japanese whaling if Japan does not commit to stop whaling by 8 December 2008, (ii) Japanese whaling operations continued past this deadline, and (iii)no such legal action has been undertaken by the Government;(b)urges the Government to:(i)strongly oppose the proposal in the document, \'The Future of the IWC\', currently before the International Whaling Commission, which seeks to legitimise Japanese whaling operations, and(ii)explain why it has not yet commenced international legal action to stop illegal Japanese whaling; and(c)condemns the violent actions of the Japanese whaling fleet, who have reportedly thrown metal balls at environmental activists, and used acoustic weapons to send out painful high frequency waves.http://www.seashepherd.org/http://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/ [More] [Less]

Enrólate en la arriesgada cruzada en defensa de las ballenas del buque Sea Shepherd al frente del capitán Paul Watson, ex fundador de Greenpeace DISCOVERY CHANNEL ZARPA CON LOS VERDADEROS PIRATAS ECOLÓGICOS La aventura de siete episodios comienza el 3 de junio, a las 2310h \"Piratas ecológicos\" (Whale Wars) trata sobre la polémica industria ballenera y las tácticas que la organización ecologista radical Sea Shepherd utiliza para intentar interferir en sus operaciones. La serie narra el viaje de este grupo ecologista durante tres meses por las heladas aguas antárticas hasta el extremo sur del planeta. Acompañaremos al equipo del capitán Paul Watson, el que fuera el fundador más joven de Greenpeace, en sus emocionantes aventuras y mostraremos cómo el barco Sea Shepherd toma medidas contra lo que considera operaciones balleneras ilegales. Presenciaremos situaciones de auténtico peligro como el secuestro de dos miembros de la tripulación y un disparo lanzado por un barco japonés al propio capitán. La lucha de esta organización ecologista, fundada en 1977, para erradicar la caza de ballenas de buques japoneses en alta mar, considerada legal por algunos países y organizaciones, hace uso de algunas técnicas agresivas, como embestir e intentar inutilizar los buques balleneros, dificultar el procesamiento de los cuerpos de las ballenas y abordar y dispersar las flotas de los buques balleneros. Con un presupuesto anual de 3 millones de dólares y padrinos como los actores Sean Penn, Martin Sheen y Pierce Brosnan, el capitán del buque tratará de preservar esta especie marina con la ayuda de sus voluntarios, entre los que se encuentra un español. La tripulación del Sea Shepherd tratará de evitar la matanza de 1.000 ballenas anuales poniendo en peligro su propia vida. http://www.oceansentry.org/lang-es/sea-shepherd/noticias/1993-estreno-piratas-ecologicos.html [More] [Less]

While in Santiago, Chile for the 60th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Sea Shepherd Conservation Society officially announced plans to return to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to once again oppose illegal Japanese whaling activities.This year\\\'s campaign, Sea Shepherd\\\'s fifth campaign to Antarctic waters, will be called Operation Musashi in reference to the legendary Japanese strategist, Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi\\\'s Book of Five Rings included the approach of the Twofold Way of Pen and Sword. Sea Shepherd\\\'s goal is to send two fast ships to the Southern Ocean with the purpose of continuously keeping the Japanese whaling fleet on the run.\\ [More] [Less]

Song: \'Antarctica\' By Midnight oil - featuring Peter GarrettImages: Under open source copyright distributionVideo: Sea Shepherd Conservation Societyhttp://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/

SUPPORT - EDUCATE - INFORMWorld Against Whaling was created in 2007 by a user of YouTube - fred100446 - as a mean to create a central petition website that would link all the anti-whaling organisations and campaigns on one site, rather then searching each one seperately. Today Fred is still the founder and owner of WAW.WAW history started on YouTube after Fred labelled one of his many videos - \\ [More] [Less]

I decided to go see the Steve Irwin in Brisbane; this was a unique opportunity as it is currently sealed off to the public for refitting and repairs. So because of the repairs/refitting, the footage on here is of the Steve Irwin is at its worse, its normally tidy... Unfortunately I had to cut a lot of footage as it had crews faces, plans, etc that cant be shown publicly on the net. I hope you understand, I tried my best to place together a video, but its hard to fully show/explain it unless you go visit yourself.For me the tour/discussions on the ship has totally changed my view on things. One very interesting topic we talked about was the arrest warrants we came to the conclusion that Japan knows they don\\\'t need to make the arrest warrants internationally recognised all they need is to keep them going by keep funding the arrests warrants to \\\'scare\\\' future crew away. He called it a \\ [More] [Less]

http://worldagainstwhaling.org/ June 24th, 2009 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society today officially announced Operation Waltzing Matilda the 6th Sea Shepherd campaign to defend the whales of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary from Japanese poachers. About 30 members of the media attended the press conference despite the hotel manager insisting that the meeting had to be low profile and held in the back of the lobby hidden by the bar. This is a research project, said Captain Paul Watson. Weve decided to demonstrate our solidarity with the Japanese, Australian, and New Zealand Research projects. Our primary objective is to research non-lethal means for defending whales. Of course this may include research into Japanese ships hull plate thickness, vessel stress tests, and paint chip analysis, as well as observation of whaler behavior in response to olfactory stimulation. To illustrate the research theme of the Sea Shepherd campaign, Sea Shepherd Netherlands Director Laurens de Groot and Sea Shepherd UK Director Steve Roest donned inflatable boats marked research and armed themselves with Styrofoam harpoons to chase IWC delegates. In their attempt to get delegate tissue samples for research purposes, they had difficulty finding elusive Japanese whalers. However, Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett innocently stumbled into the path of the harpoons and because Australia is apparently voting to support the slaughter of Humpbacks in Greenland, he was considered a legitimate target. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be returning to the Southern Ocean in December for the 6th Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign. This year Sea Shepherd will be sending two ships to the Southern Ocean, the upgraded and fully repaired Steve Irwin and potentially the fast interceptor vessel Earthrace. On board will be an Animal Planet film crew to document the 3rd season of Whale Wars. We are taking the most powerful anti-whaling weapon at our disposal: a film crew, said Laurens de Groot, a Sea Shepherd Netherlands Director. The cameras are more powerful than cannons and our ammunition is the naked truth about illegal whaling. We intend to keep the focus on Japanese crimes and we intend to sink the Japanese whaling fleet economically. An international crew of volunteers will crew the ships to the Southern Ocean but this years campaign will have an Australian face. For this reason the name Operation Waltzing Matilda has been chosen. This is the unofficial national anthem of Australia. Translated from Aussie it means \"hiking with a bedroll or pack.\" Australians are the most passionate whale defenders on the planet, said Captain Watson. Operation Waltzing Matilda will reflect our gratitude to Australia for the incredible support we have received from the people of this wonderful nation since 2005. The Steve Irwin will depart in December from Western Australia with the majority of the crew being Australians. Kylie Herd, a Sea Shepherd crewmember from Perth attending the IWC Conference in Madeira said, Our logo this year is modeled on the art that adorned the fighter planes of the legendary Flying Tigers who fought the Japanese Imperial forces in China. The colors of the Aboriginal and Australian flags have been incorporated into the design with the pirate kangaroo holding Neptunes trident of justice. We intend to waltz down to the Southern Ocean to dance dangerously with the Japanese whaling fleet and we intend to unroll a Matilda full of defensive tactics for the whales against the Japanese whale poachers. Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Waltzing Matilda is scheduled to depart for the Southern Ocean on December 1st, 2009. As usual, Sea Shepherd has some new surprises for the Japanese pirate whalers this year and the whalers will surely have some surprises for Sea Shepherd. The confrontations are escalating as the whalers lose more and more money each year. The Sea Shepherd crew intends to persist and will never retreat from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary until the last harpoon has been silenced and the word sanctuary is understood once and for all. There is no retreat for Sea Shepherd from the whale wars, there is only victory or defeat for the whales, and we do not intend see the whales defeated, nor do we intend to let these blubber chewing murdering barbarian butchers win. [More] [Less]

Our loving friends, our dolphins, who have been so friendly to us humans, are tortured and killed mercilessly. Put through a lifetime of torture and suffering, just to satisfy mans appetite. This is how our dear dolphins are treated.

Enrólate en la arriesgada cruzada en defensa de las ballenas del buque Sea Shepherd al frente del capitán Paul Watson, ex fundador de Greenpeace DISCOVERY CHANNEL ZARPA CON LOS VERDADEROS PIRATAS ECOLÓGICOS La aventura de siete episodios comienza el 3 de junio, a las 2310h \"Piratas ecológicos\" (Whale Wars) trata sobre la polémica industria ballenera y las tácticas que la organización ecologista radical Sea Shepherd utiliza para intentar interferir en sus operaciones. La serie narra el viaje de este grupo ecologista durante tres meses por las heladas aguas antárticas hasta el extremo sur del planeta. Acompañaremos al equipo del capitán Paul Watson, el que fuera el fundador más joven de Greenpeace, en sus emocionantes aventuras y mostraremos cómo el barco Sea Shepherd toma medidas contra lo que considera operaciones balleneras ilegales. Presenciaremos situaciones de auténtico peligro como el secuestro de dos miembros de la tripulación y un disparo lanzado por un barco japonés al propio capitán. La lucha de esta organización ecologista, fundada en 1977, para erradicar la caza de ballenas de buques japoneses en alta mar, considerada legal por algunos países y organizaciones, hace uso de algunas técnicas agresivas, como embestir e intentar inutilizar los buques balleneros, dificultar el procesamiento de los cuerpos de las ballenas y abordar y dispersar las flotas de los buques balleneros. Con un presupuesto anual de 3 millones de dólares y padrinos como los actores Sean Penn, Martin Sheen y Pierce Brosnan, el capitán del buque tratará de preservar esta especie marina con la ayuda de sus voluntarios, entre los que se encuentra un español. La tripulación del Sea Shepherd tratará de evitar la matanza de 1.000 ballenas anuales poniendo en peligro su propia vida. http://www.oceansentry.org/lang-es/sea-shepherd/noticias/1993-estreno-piratas-ecologicos.html [More] [Less]

Trailer for the upcoming documentary \"The Cove\"

Song: \'Antarctica\' By Midnight oil - featuring Peter GarrettImages: Under open source copyright distributionVideo: Sea Shepherd Conservation Societyhttp://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/

PART ONE of TWOJapan:The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) hired 3 international panels of independent legal experts who all ruled Japan to be in breach of the following International treaties and laws;- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,- United Nations Charter on Nature,- The Antarctic Treaty System,- The Convention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies (CITES) and- The International Convention on the Regulation ofWhalinghttp://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=223096Japan hunts 1000\\\'s of whales a year under a loophole in the IWC system. In the whole fleet there is only two scienist onboard and the \\\'lab\\\' is smaller then their rooms.Japan has produced several scienific papers. Only 4 are reconised by the IWC. So they killed 1000\\\'s of whales over a 40 year period for 4 papers!SEE PART TWOhttp://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWxjT64XrcTOEGETHER WE CAN STOP WHALINGhttp://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/ [More] [Less]

SUPPORT - EDUCATE - INFORMWorld Against Whaling was created in 2007 by a user of YouTube - fred100446 - as a mean to create a central petition website that would link all the anti-whaling organisations and campaigns on one site, rather then searching each one seperately. Today Fred is still the founder and owner of WAW.WAW history started on YouTube after Fred labelled one of his many videos - \\ [More] [Less]

While in Santiago, Chile for the 60th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Sea Shepherd Conservation Society officially announced plans to return to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to once again oppose illegal Japanese whaling activities.This year\\\'s campaign, Sea Shepherd\\\'s fifth campaign to Antarctic waters, will be called Operation Musashi in reference to the legendary Japanese strategist, Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi\\\'s Book of Five Rings included the approach of the Twofold Way of Pen and Sword. Sea Shepherd\\\'s goal is to send two fast ships to the Southern Ocean with the purpose of continuously keeping the Japanese whaling fleet on the run.\\ [More] [Less]

The Nisshin Maru is blasting the crew on the Steve Irwin with high pressure water hoses and LRAD sonic weapons. The harpoon vessels are passing closer and closer before the bow of the Steve Irwin to block the Sea Shepherd ship from interfering with their whaling operations.The crew are a little dazed and dizzy from the LRAD\'s and many of them have been drenched with freezing water.Australian Senate condemns the violent actions by the Japanese whaling fleet against Sea Shepherd Senator Siewert: I move:That the Senate-(a) notes that:(i) on 25 November 2008, the Senate urged the Australian Government to set a timeline for legal proceedings in an international court to stop illegal Japanese whaling if Japan does not commit to stop whaling by 8 December 2008, (ii) Japanese whaling operations continued past this deadline, and (iii)no such legal action has been undertaken by the Government;(b)urges the Government to:(i)strongly oppose the proposal in the document, \'The Future of the IWC\', currently before the International Whaling Commission, which seeks to legitimise Japanese whaling operations, and(ii)explain why it has not yet commenced international legal action to stop illegal Japanese whaling; and(c)condemns the violent actions of the Japanese whaling fleet, who have reportedly thrown metal balls at environmental activists, and used acoustic weapons to send out painful high frequency waves.http://www.seashepherd.org/http://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/ [More] [Less]

Under two months Japan is coming back to the Antarctic Whale sanctuary for another 1000 whales. This includes endangered species and random sampling. Random sampling is when they hunt any whale they see including calves and mothers. A mother once lost its calf and fasted it self for several days while drifting in the water. Not only does the mother get depressed but through their social networking, which is very complex and can\\\'t be understood by humans, other whales get depressed. The whales they kill in the Antarctic swim right past australia and give birth in our waters. We protect them, then when they are swming back to antarctica the japanese kill them which can take up to 30 mins. These whales were born in Asutralia! What are you going to do Australia? Are you going to let another 1000 whales die?Are you just gonna sit there?TOGETHER WE CAN STOP WHALINGhttp://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/ [More] [Less]

Take a stand today and boycott Japan\'s products to save the whales.Let the world know!Email these contacts to express your concern and purpose for boycotting: BCrichton@sanyo.com.au cservice@mazda.com.au http://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/boycottjapan.htmTOGETHER WE CAN END WHALING

Help Stop The Slaughter! Sign the petitions on in the campaigns section. TOGETHER WE CAN STOP WHALING

Don\'t get sucked in by the ICR lies. They have been proven to lie in the past and they will continue to lie to the world.Japan is singled out as it is the only country to have breached the:- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, - United Nations Charter on Nature, - The Antarctic Treaty System, - The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) - The International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling - Lying to the world: it is the ONLY country doing it under the pathetic lies of \"Scientific Research\". - They are also the ONLY country not doing it in their own territorial waters... See the truth, then sign the petitions:http://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/*Video from ABC-Catalyst - \'Whale Science\':http://bananasinpyjamas.com/catalyst/stories/s1657789.htmTOGETHER WE CAN END WHALING [More] [Less]

http://worldagainstwhaling.org/ June 24th, 2009 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society today officially announced Operation Waltzing Matilda the 6th Sea Shepherd campaign to defend the whales of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary from Japanese poachers. About 30 members of the media attended the press conference despite the hotel manager insisting that the meeting had to be low profile and held in the back of the lobby hidden by the bar. This is a research project, said Captain Paul Watson. Weve decided to demonstrate our solidarity with the Japanese, Australian, and New Zealand Research projects. Our primary objective is to research non-lethal means for defending whales. Of course this may include research into Japanese ships hull plate thickness, vessel stress tests, and paint chip analysis, as well as observation of whaler behavior in response to olfactory stimulation. To illustrate the research theme of the Sea Shepherd campaign, Sea Shepherd Netherlands Director Laurens de Groot and Sea Shepherd UK Director Steve Roest donned inflatable boats marked research and armed themselves with Styrofoam harpoons to chase IWC delegates. In their attempt to get delegate tissue samples for research purposes, they had difficulty finding elusive Japanese whalers. However, Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett innocently stumbled into the path of the harpoons and because Australia is apparently voting to support the slaughter of Humpbacks in Greenland, he was considered a legitimate target. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be returning to the Southern Ocean in December for the 6th Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign. This year Sea Shepherd will be sending two ships to the Southern Ocean, the upgraded and fully repaired Steve Irwin and potentially the fast interceptor vessel Earthrace. On board will be an Animal Planet film crew to document the 3rd season of Whale Wars. We are taking the most powerful anti-whaling weapon at our disposal: a film crew, said Laurens de Groot, a Sea Shepherd Netherlands Director. The cameras are more powerful than cannons and our ammunition is the naked truth about illegal whaling. We intend to keep the focus on Japanese crimes and we intend to sink the Japanese whaling fleet economically. An international crew of volunteers will crew the ships to the Southern Ocean but this years campaign will have an Australian face. For this reason the name Operation Waltzing Matilda has been chosen. This is the unofficial national anthem of Australia. Translated from Aussie it means \"hiking with a bedroll or pack.\" Australians are the most passionate whale defenders on the planet, said Captain Watson. Operation Waltzing Matilda will reflect our gratitude to Australia for the incredible support we have received from the people of this wonderful nation since 2005. The Steve Irwin will depart in December from Western Australia with the majority of the crew being Australians. Kylie Herd, a Sea Shepherd crewmember from Perth attending the IWC Conference in Madeira said, Our logo this year is modeled on the art that adorned the fighter planes of the legendary Flying Tigers who fought the Japanese Imperial forces in China. The colors of the Aboriginal and Australian flags have been incorporated into the design with the pirate kangaroo holding Neptunes trident of justice. We intend to waltz down to the Southern Ocean to dance dangerously with the Japanese whaling fleet and we intend to unroll a Matilda full of defensive tactics for the whales against the Japanese whale poachers. Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Waltzing Matilda is scheduled to depart for the Southern Ocean on December 1st, 2009. As usual, Sea Shepherd has some new surprises for the Japanese pirate whalers this year and the whalers will surely have some surprises for Sea Shepherd. The confrontations are escalating as the whalers lose more and more money each year. The Sea Shepherd crew intends to persist and will never retreat from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary until the last harpoon has been silenced and the word sanctuary is understood once and for all. There is no retreat for Sea Shepherd from the whale wars, there is only victory or defeat for the whales, and we do not intend see the whales defeated, nor do we intend to let these blubber chewing murdering barbarian butchers win. [More] [Less]

PART ONE of TWOJapan:The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) hired 3 international panels of independent legal experts who all ruled Japan to be in breach of the following International treaties and laws;- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,- United Nations Charter on Nature,- The Antarctic Treaty System,- The Convention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies (CITES) and- The International Convention on the Regulation ofWhalinghttp://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=223096Japan hunts 1000\\\'s of whales a year under a loophole in the IWC system. In the whole fleet there is only two scienist onboard and the \\\'lab\\\' is smaller then their rooms.Japan has produced several scienific papers. Only 4 are reconised by the IWC. So they killed 1000\\\'s of whales over a 40 year period for 4 papers!SEE PART TWOhttp://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWxjT64XrcTOEGETHER WE CAN STOP WHALINGhttp://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/ [More] [Less]

THE only protest vessel set to disrupt Japan\\\'s annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters has arrived in Newcastle, December 06, 2008, with crew expecting an even tougher confrontation than last year.Stopping for fuel and oil, Canadian captain Paul Watson said the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society\\\'s vessel, the Steve Irwin, would head off to harass a fleet of eight Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean late on Saturday night.Captain Watson said he was expecting more heated scenes than he experienced a year ago, when two Sea Shepherd activists claimed they were mistreated by Japanese whalers after they boarded a harpoon boat to deliver an anti-whaling letter.After the pair was released, anti-whaling activists admitted to having thrown about 12 stink bombs at a Japanese whaling ship. As soon as we catch up with them (Japanese whalers) I\\\'m sure there will be a confrontation with them, Captain Watson said.We expect the Japanese whalers will be more aggressive this year than last, because they are becoming increasingly more difficult because they are losing more and more money.He said the Rudd Government had not shown support for his attempts to stop Japan\\\'s annual whale hunt.We don\\\'t have any bullet-proof vests because the Australian Government wouldn\\\'t let us bring them in, so that puts our crew\\\'s lives at risk, but we\\\'ll take whatever precautions we can, he said.He described the Government\\\'s attitude towards his mission as hostile. They\\\'ve been very passive-aggressive in trying to force us out of the country, he said.They\\\'ve been totally uncooperative. My crew and I have been hassled about immigration.We didn\\\'t have this problem with the previous government. It\\\'s ironic, considering I actually pushed for so many people to vote for Rudd and (Federal Environment Minister Peter) Garrett.Captain Watson said the Steve Irwin would stop in Hobart for more fuel and oil before it entered the Southern Ocean.He expects to catch up with the Japanese whalers between December 18 and December 25.A third of the 48 crew and passengers on board the Steve Irwin are from Australia. Others are from the US including actress Daryl Hannah and from Japan.Eight of those aboard the vessel are filming a program commissioned by Discovery Channel\\\'s program, Whale Wars.Captain Watson expects to remain at sea from December through to March. [More] [Less]

Under two months Japan is coming back to the Antarctic Whale sanctuary for another 1000 whales. This includes endangered species and random sampling. Random sampling is when they hunt any whale they see including calves and mothers. A mother once lost its calf and fasted it self for several days while drifting in the water. Not only does the mother get depressed but through their social networking, which is very complex and can\\\'t be understood by humans, other whales get depressed. The whales they kill in the Antarctic swim right past australia and give birth in our waters. We protect them, then when they are swming back to antarctica the japanese kill them which can take up to 30 mins. These whales were born in Asutralia! What are you going to do Australia? Are you going to let another 1000 whales die?Are you just gonna sit there?TOGETHER WE CAN STOP WHALINGhttp://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/ [More] [Less]

While in Santiago, Chile for the 60th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Sea Shepherd Conservation Society officially announced plans to return to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to once again oppose illegal Japanese whaling activities.This year\\\'s campaign, Sea Shepherd\\\'s fifth campaign to Antarctic waters, will be called Operation Musashi in reference to the legendary Japanese strategist, Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi\\\'s Book of Five Rings included the approach of the Twofold Way of Pen and Sword. Sea Shepherd\\\'s goal is to send two fast ships to the Southern Ocean with the purpose of continuously keeping the Japanese whaling fleet on the run.\\ [More] [Less]

SUPPORT - EDUCATE - INFORMWorld Against Whaling was created in 2007 by a user of YouTube - fred100446 - as a mean to create a central petition website that would link all the anti-whaling organisations and campaigns on one site, rather then searching each one seperately. Today Fred is still the founder and owner of WAW.WAW history started on YouTube after Fred labelled one of his many videos - \\ [More] [Less]