Posted in Senate, whales, tagged greenpeace, japan, japanese, whaling on July 16, 2008 | 55 Comments »
In an update on our previous post, we now have more information on the two Greenpeace activists who were arrested in Japan following a four-month investigation into activities onboard the Japanese factory whaling ship and what happens to the whale meat that is processed following their ’scientific’ research.
Greenpeace intercepted one of many boxes of whale [...]
Posted in whales, tagged activism, greenpeace, japan, police, whaling on June 25, 2008 | 49 Comments »
Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling program.
The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence.
According to Greenpeace, the box of expensive cuts of whale meat had been [...]
Posted in whales on June 16, 2008 | 17 Comments »
We’ve had some polling done, and the results should really be a wake-up call for the Government on whaling.
Polling indicated that there is very strong public support for the Australian Government to take international legal action to try and stop the Japanese whaling program (87%), even if it means compromising our relationship with Japan (91%).
The [...]
Posted in Environment, GMO, Rachel Siewert, whales, tagged genetically, whaling, NRM, senate estimates, transcripts, animals on June 4, 2008 | 9 Comments »
To follow on from Tim H’s post on Senate Estimates transcripts, I thought I’d also post a few links to some of the more interesting discussions coming out of estimates.
Rach asked some questions on Live Animal Exports, in particular around those Memorandum of Understandings that the Australian Government have with countries to which we export [...]
Posted in whales, tagged whaling, japanese, greenpeace, sea shepherd on May 28, 2008 | 154 Comments »
Senate Estimates have shown the true lack of commitment from the Rudd Government on the fight against whaling in our Antarctic waters.
Under questioning, it was confirmed that the 2008 budget held no funding for a continuation of the customs ship Oceanic Viking (or any other ship) to monitor Japanese whaling fleets in our Southern and [...]
Posted in Rachel Siewert, whales, tagged whaling, whales, japanese, legal on February 7, 2008 | 17 Comments »
The Australian Greens are calling on the Federal Government to make photographic and video evidence collected during the Oceanic Viking operation available to HSI.
Bringing together previous discussions here about whaling and computer gaming, have a look at Harpooned
New video game allows you to hunt endangered whale species for “scientific research” i.e. to make pet food and burgers. Makes a few poignant statements about the Japanese whaling program along the way.
My personal favourite is the inclusion of protest boats [...]
Posted in Anti-environmentalism, Climate change, Environment, Forestry, Greens, Logging, Marine, whales on January 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The debate flying in Crikey.com.au about whaling campaigns in recent days is symptomatic of the way predictable players use the summer whaling season as an opportunity to further their anti-environmental campaigns. Here’s my contribution to the debate from today’s Crikey email. Apologies if the links are behind the Crikey paywall…
Steve Shallhorn, my former boss at [...]
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