SEA SHEPHERD NEWS

Galapagos Islands No Longer on UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger - At the annual meeting of the UNESCO committee for World Heritage Sites, which was held this year in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, it was decided that Ecuador has improved the situation in the Galapagos Islands to such an extent that they need no longer be included on the List of World Heritage in Danger....  read more

Faeroe Islands: Sea Shepherd Undercover Operation Exposes Cetacean Mass Slaughter - On July 19, 2010, a pod of 236 pilot whales was ruthlessly slaughtered in the town of Klaksvik in the Danish Faeroe Islands. Sea Shepherd was able to document the slaughter through the efforts of an undercover operative who had been living among the locals in order to capture footage of "the grind." The grind is a cruel method of whaling that involves stranding pods of cetaceans in coves before severing their spinal chords with knives.......  read more

Sea Shepherd Visits Monaco - The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin arrived in Port Hercule in Monaco on July 20th for a three day visit before proceeding on to Barcelona, the final stop in the Mediterranean campaign before the ship returns to Australia for final preparations for Operation No Compromise – our return to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to defend the whales from illegal Japanese whaling operations.......  read more

Oil Spill Assaults Kahnawakes Shoreline - With the horrific disaster in the Gulf it is easy to forget that oil spills are occurring practically every day somewhere in the worlds oceans. Most of these spills go unreported and unpunished. The frequency of the spills themselves have made oil spills pretty much routine until something like Deep Water Horizon happens and people are horrified by pictures of dying oil soaked birds and dolphins choking on crude spewing from their blowholes. A spill that happened last week came close to home for us at Sea Shepherd.... read more

   Other Recent News

• 16 July 11 The Steve Irwin Visits Italy
• 12 July 11 Operation Black Water in Cuba Triumphs in the Name of Sea Life
• 09 July 11 Press Conference with Freed Whale Warrior Captain Pete Bethune
• 09 July 10 Whale Wars Nominated for Two Emmy Awards!
• 06 July 10 Whale Warrior Captain Pete Bethune Free to Return Home
• 06 July 10 Sea Shepherd Voted #1 Favorite Non-Profit on eBay

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COMMENTARY & EDITORIAL

Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Addresses the People of the Faeroe Islands - An op-ed piece was published today in the biggest newspaper in the Faeroe Islands, Dimmalaetting. It is a letter from Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Peter Hammarstedt to the Faroese people......read more

 Other Recent Commentaries

• Sea Shepherd Operation Gulf Rescue Update
• The Faeroes and Mercury in Our Seafood
• Beware of the “Seal Shepherd”
• Bye, Bye, Rotten Butter Bombs
• In Memory of Carroll Vogel

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