Passion for Ocean. 3600 whales saved: world volunteers' direct action; Simon fortune to Whales' Navy: Zero cruelty. Zero kills

Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) “What is evil? Killing is evil". Japan's ICR has set itself a quota of nearly one thousand minke and 50 fin whales to be culled during the 2012/2013 Australian summer in Antarctica: in the name of "science". Earth Dr Reese Halter, biologist: "four Japanese whale-killing, factory ships armed with coast guards and grenade-tipped harpoons are within hours of entering a demilitarized zone and the international Great Southern Ocean Sanctuary. The bloody 'War Against Nature' is set to rage."

*update* Jan. 7, 2013 Sea Shepherd Australia To Lead Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign - Former Greens leader Bob Brown takes helm. Whalers' legal action has forced Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson to resign as president after more than three decades at the helm, saved thousands of most innocent sea lives from merciless slaughter...

Captain Watson Gives Speech at Sea Shepherd 35th Anniversary Event in Colorado

On one hand, a handful of volunteers from all over the world, risking their own lives, standing between the butchers' fleet equipped with high-tech killing weapons and the voiceless defenseless whales, giant but so gentle, have rescued 3600 whales from ruthless merciless slaughter through life-and-death situations, as we have all witnessed in Whale Wars in the past few years... On the other hand, 13,000 whales have been killed by Japanese whalers in the name of "science". What kind of "science" is it? Science is not science if it is used to cover up senseless cruelty - hunting marine mammals to extinction... Nature, Universe and Ocean have created myths and miracles, far beyond our comprehension... There is no way to prove immensely huge mammals, whales, are not Ocean God; equally weighed, there is no excuse that the Ocean Giant, whales, should be treated less than humans... - Editor

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EU Parliament Takes Strong Stand Against Japan's whaling under the guise of science ...Since 1987 Japan has killed more than 13,000 whales in its 'scientific whaling' programs...

Operation Zero Tolerance
In our ninth season in Antarctica, Sea Shepherd is embarking upon its biggest campaign yet to defend at-risk wales!
We’re returning stronger than ever to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with a fleet of four ships, one helicopter and more than 100 international crewmembers - the whales’ Navy!

During the past eight seasons, Sea Shepherd’s direct-action interventions have saved the lives of more than 3,600 whales and exposed illegal Japanese whaling to the world. This year, our campaign is aptly dubbed Operation Zero Tolerance because we aim to send the whalers home without them killing a single whale. We have a great track record of success to build upon. The last two seasons, we sent the whalers home early with just a fraction of their kill quota. Japanese whaling is a dying industry - continuing only due to government pride and massive subsidies. Hundreds of millions in debt, the industry cannot continue to sustain such huge financial losses. With your help, we will meet our goal of sinking the Japanese whaling fleet economically to finally bring peace to the whales of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Zero tolerance. Zero cruelty. Zero kills.
Please join us!

"The most important issue on this planet right now it to protect and conserve biodiversity in the world’s oceans, and I don’t think people realize just how intimate our connection is with the oceans themselves. Not only do they provide the very foundation of life and control our weather, but life could simply not exist without a healthy ocean. The real problem though is apathy - it’s all out of sight, it’s all out of mind and people don’t even think about it... If the oceans die, then civilization collapses, we all die." - Captain Paul Watson

November 5th launched Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s (SSCS) ninth annual Southern Ocean campaign "Operation Zero Tolerance (OZT)" with the departure of flagship Steve Irwin from Melbourne. Four ships (including Bob Barker, Brigitte Bardot, and Sam Simon), a helicopter, eight small RIB’s, three drones, and more than 100 international volunteers, plans to follow closely behind. This marks the year of SSCS strongest fleet yet and their new-found zero tolerance policy for whale poachers.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit organization created with the mission "to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species." And this year, SSCS has taken on a substantial goal: to send the illegal Japanese whalers home with zero whale kills.

Captain Paul Watson, who has been master and commander of over 225 ocean-going expeditions, states , "The key to success in stopping these illegal whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is basic economics. We will negate their profits. Our objective is to sink the Japanese whaling fleet economically - to bankrupt them," said Captain Paul Watson. "And we are well on our way to doing just that."

The New York Times confirmed Captain Watson’s statement in its report on the Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR), the government-owned organization that operates the Japanese Whaling fleet. According to ICR, the SSCS cost the whalers $20.5 million during the 2010-2011 whaling season in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The whalers, who are already operating solely on government subsidies, were further submerged into debt. It’s now just a matter of time before the institute loses all of its funds that the government no longer finds profitable to replenish.

November 5, 2012 - This morning, Captain Siddharth Chakravarty sailed the Sea Shepherd Ship (SSS) Steve Irwin out of Seaworks, Williamstown, Australia, to kick off Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Zero Tolerance, its ninth Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign. The Steve Irwin is Sea Shepherd's flagship vessel. Chakravarty is a young sailor from Maharashtra, India and this will be his second Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign with Sea Shepherd. "The aim is to bring an end to whaling. We want to permanently end illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, which is protected by an international moratorium," he said.
Captain of the SSS Bob Barker, Captain Peter Hammarstedt stated, "The plan is for our fleet to meet the whaling fleet in the North Pacific off Japan. We are planning to take the battle pretty much up to Japan itself. We are keeping the location and identity of our new vessel, the SSS Sam Simon, a secret in the hope that the first time the whalers see the Sam, is when she comes into view on the slipway of the factory processing ship, the Nisshin Maru, effectively shutting down their illegal whaling operations."
Currently docked in Marina del Rey, California on its very first trip to the mainland U.S., the fast scout vessel, the SSS Brigitte Bardot, will depart on November 11 and quickly meet up with the rest of the Sea Shepherd fleet.
Hammarstedt also went on to say "it is expected Sea Shepherd Founder and President Captain Paul Watson will appear in command of one of the vessels when the action begins." Captain Watson has been in an undisclosed location since July 22 when he forfeited his bail and departed house arrest in Germany to avoid being extradited on bogus charges to Costa Rica and Japan.
Australian Director Jeff Hansen stated, "This is our strongest fleet to date, with four ships and more than 100 international crew representing 23 nations to defend the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Operation Zero Tolerance will be Sea Shepherd's best-equipped and most effective campaign to date. This is a defining moment in Sea Shepherd's history; we have no tolerance for whale poachers. Our objective this year is 100%. We are going to try and intercept them as quickly as possible, and try to make this the first year they get zero kills."
"We have never been stronger and the Japanese whalers have never been weaker, we need to take advantage of our strengths and their weaknesses and we need to bring this campaign home – to Japan," said Captain Watson.

Sea Shepherd New Vessel to ‘Surprise’ Japan's Whale killers While we’ve known since late June that the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was on the verge of adding another ship to its fleet, the actual identity of the vessel has remained a closely-guarded secret. Turns out it’s all by design as the SSCS are not keen to unwrap the new M/V Sam Simon (named after “The Simpsons” co-creator that’s funding its purchase) until Operation Zero Tolerance is underway in the Southern Ocean. As Sea Shepherd’s Senior Media Relations Manager Lisa Agabian told me, the hope is that “we may retain the element of surprise against the Japanese whaling fleet.”

‘The Simpsons’ Co-Creator is Buying Sea Shepherd a New Ship While Matt Groening and James Brooks are the two names most associated with the success of “The Simpsons” (the longest-running American primetime, scripted television series), producer Sam Simon also had a hand in making the show a reality.

He left the show in 1993, but as one would expect, continues to receive wads of cash each year. While not pursuing other interests outside the world of television (such as being a successful and avid professional poker player), Simon has put his wealth to good use. First there’s the “Sam Simon Foundation” dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating stray dogs that would otherwise be euthanized. These animals then go on to become service dogs for the disabled. His foundation also offers a free mobile spay and neutering program for low-income pet owners.

Last year, he launched the “Sam Simon Foundation Feeding Families” which provides food for people and animals in need. Oh yea – he’s also a board member for Save The Children, hosts the largest annual fundraiser for PETA, and rocks a vegan diet.

In other words, Simon is seriously committed to making the world a better place for people and animals.

So it makes sense that we’re now seeing Simon linked to news regarding the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s next anti-whaling vessel.

At a fundraising party several days ago in Malibu to support Captain Paul Watson and his fight against extradition to Costa Rica, Simon told the crowd that he will fully fund another ship for the SSCS fleet.

“I think this is the year we are going to end whaling once and for all,” Simon told the crowd.

“He said they needed something fast, and they needed something with a reinforced hull to battle the Japanese,” Simon said jokingly. “So next whaling season— if there is one, we’re not sure—the ‘Sam Simon’ will be bashing through ice, and hopefully we can end the atrocity of whaling in the southern ocean forever.”

EU Parliament Takes Strong Stand Against Japan's whaling under the guise of science European Parliamentarians have taken a strong stand against whaling as part of EU-Japan trade negotiations. The EU's International Trade Committee (INTA) has adopted several amendments, tabled by MEP David Martin (S&D), which note serious divergences between the EU and Japan on issues related to the management of fisheries and whaling, notably Japan's whaling under the guise of science. One amendment calls for, amongst other things, an "end to this so-called scientific whaling and support (for) the designation of substantial regions of ocean and seas as sanctuaries."

These amendments from EU Parliamentarians demonstrate continued concern for animal welfare in relation to trade. In 2011, EU Parliament voted in favour of an amendment relating to Canada's commercial seal hunt, requesting that Canada withdraw its World Trade Organization challenge of the EU ban on seal products or jeopardize the Canada-EU trade agreement (CETA). The amendment states that the EU "takes note of the recent legal developments regarding the EU's ban on seal products, in particular Canada's request to the WTO for the establishment of a formal dispute resolution panel; and expresses its strong hope that Canada will withdraw the WTO challenge, which is counter to positive trade relations, prior to the need for ratification of the (Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement) by the European Parliament."

"This is a first step towards a tremendous victory for whales," said Barbara Slee IFAW Political Officer. "We are delighted the INTA Committee has recognised that bilateral agreements must ensure that our trade partners fulfil their international obligations."

The INTA Committee emphasised the need for "a robust and ambitious sustainable development chapter" that will "also include the establishment of a civil society forum that monitors and comments on," among other things, "the effective implementation of multilateral agreements on the environment, animal welfare and the conservation of biological diversity."

"Today the International Trade committee reiterated its total opposition to commercial and so-called scientific whaling," said MEP David Martin. "As the EU comes closer to launching negotiations with Japan for a free trade agreement we call on Japan to review its whaling strategy and respect the global ban on this outdated and barbaric practice."

Since 1987 Japan has killed more than 13,000 whales in its two 'scientific whaling' programs.

"The EU supports the global ban on commercial whaling and this trade deal must reflect this position" concluded Slee.

A 2009 Copenhagen Economics study showed potential export gains from a free trade agreement to be EUR43bn for the EU and EUR53bn for Japan.

About IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Founded in 1969, IFAW saves animals in crisis around the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW rescues individual animals, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and advocates for the protection of wildlife and habitats. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org . Follow us on Facebook at IFAWHQ and Twitter @IFAWCanada.

TV host Bob Barker said, 'I'm delighted to be able to help the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in its mission to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans,' 'There is lot of talk about preserving our ecosystems and species, but this is one organization that puts these words into action.'

Without Bob Barker, crew of Ady Gil (Earthrace) would have been buried in icy ocean - Captain Bethune said "his crew's "murderous" brush with death in the Antarctic when their high-speed pursuit vessel was sliced open by a Japanese whaler." After the collision, Pete Bethune said the Japanese tried to wash them into the freezing Southern Ocean with a high-pressure hose as they huddled aboard the sinking Ady Gil.

*Update* 12/04/2012 Paul Watson "I am now the Captain of the Steve Irwin once again", Peter Hammarstedt, a citizen of Sweden and the USA is the Captain on the Bob Barker and captaining the Brigitte Bardot is world famous French sailor, the legendary Jean Yves Terlain"12/10/2012 - Captain of the Sam Simon is Locky Maclean (a citizen of both France and Canada, sailing to over 25 countries on four continents, crossing the world's oceans.)

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Captain Paul Watson: a long journey - "Across two oceans and countless rivers, over three mountain ranges, across a desert, over lakes, and through dozens of cities and towns. A total of 9,000 miles covered from Frankfurt, Germany to the Southern Pacific Ocean." "I now have returned to the Steve Irwin, traveling primarily through the largest and most free nation in the world – The Ocean!" "despite their resources, their small army of lawyers and their ability to use their economic clout to place me on the Interpol Red List on politically motivated bogus charges"

"It has been seven months since the Germans detained me at Frankfurt airport and four months since I left Germany. I would not have made it here without the loyalty and resourcefulness of supporters, friends, and family. And because of them, I now have returned to the Steve Irwin, traveling primarily through the largest and most free nation in the world – The Ocean! I can’t go into details of my travels over the last four months. I may have to do it again sometime in the future. More importantly, we need to now focus on the immediate future and not the recent past.

Our ships and our crew are on the move. The Steve Irwin and I are at sea. The Bob Barker left on November 30th from Sydney. The Brigitte Bardot is also at sea and the Sam Simon remains in an undisclosed location amidst rumors and speculations as to what and where it is. All I can say is that Locky MacLean, a citizen of both France and Canada, is the Captain.

I am now the Captain of the Steve Irwin once again. Peter Hammarstedt, a citizen of Sweden and the USA, is the Captain on the Bob Barker and captaining the Brigitte Bardot is world famous French sailor, the legendary Jean Yves Terlain.

Four ships with four captains and officers and crew, 120 people from 24 nations: Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Great Britain, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

The objective of Operation Zero Tolerance is to intercept and intervene against the intent of the Japanese whaling fleet to murder 1,035 whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Our purpose is twofold: to save the lives of whales and to cost the Japanese whaling industry as much as we possibly can in financial losses. Last year, we cost them roughly $22 million U.S. dollars despite the fact that they received a $30 million dollar subsidy stolen from the victims of the Japanese Tsunami Relief Fund.

And as always, our actions are undertaken in the Buddhist spirit of Hayagriva, where we do not cause physical injury to our opponents. We target their intentions and thwart their lethal ambitions, but we never harm them. Unfortunately, they do not share our compassion and thus the risks our crews face are considerable.

We have never been stronger, nor more determined. Our dedication to defending the integrity of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is undiminished, for we know that the key to success is persistence, patience and perseverance.

We have succeeded in bankrupting the whaling fleet. We have sunk them economically. Now we need to sink them politically.

Back in 1977 we opposed the slaughter of whales in Western Australia when Australia was a stubborn whaling nation. Today, Australia is the leading nation in the world defending the whales. That gives me great hope for Japan. Japan can be a great force for good with marine conservation, and more and more Japanese are supporting us every year. I believe that one day Japan will be a nation that also protects the whales and no longer kills them, just like Australia has become today.

Whaling is becoming unpopular in Japan. Only a few years ago, the Japanese whaling fleet would depart from the dock with cheering crowds, bands, ribbons and widespread media coverage. They departed this week from an obscure location, without fanfare; shamefully sneaking out to sea for fear that we would see them.

Earlier in the month we issued a statement saying that we would confront them off the coast of Japan and apparently they believed it. Their Coast Guard mobilized and they went to a great deal of expense and effort to sneak quietly out of port. Of course we had no intention of heading North at all. We are waiting for them in the South, but before they reach the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Our ships will spread out to guard the approaches to the Sanctuary and once the Nisshin Maru is found we will block any attempt to undertake whaling operations. I do hope that this will be the last year we must make the long, expensive and dangerous voyage to the Southern Ocean but we will return again next year and the year after that, and every year thereafter until the whale killing is ended.

We have become the guardians of the whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and we will never surrender to these killers.

A special thank you to all of you who have donated to Sea Shepherd and made it possible for our ships to be where we are now. We still need your help to refuel the vessels to allow us to keep our stations down here at the bottom of the planet as the guardians of the great whales. We do what we do so the whales may live. We do what we do for the children of the future, so that they may live in a world with whales, for when the whales are no more, the sea will die and when the sea is no more – we, all of us, will die!

As I stand on the bridge wing of the Steve Irwin looking over the vast inky blue shroud of the ocean, I see between the sea and the amber cloud speckled golden sky — a single spout directly ahead and that spout symbolizes life. As the sun sets to the west, a flash of green sparks on the horizon and I feel that there can be no place I would rather be or anyplace that I could be more happy than upon these life-sustaining waters on a quest to defend Leviathan."

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Dec. 10, 2012 - Los Angeles-based philanthropist and co-creator of TV’s “The Simpsons,” Sam Simon, has donated funds for the purchase of a ship, Sea Shepherd's new Antarctic patrol ship, the SSS Sam Simon, is unveiled today in the port of Hobart, Tasmania With four vessels departing for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Sea Shepherd's Operation Zero Tolerance aims to find the Japanese whaling fleet and chase it out of the Antarctic Treaty Zone without a single whale killed. It is Sea Shepherd's most ambitious campaign, and the culmination of a decade's conservation work in the Antarctic, which has drastically reduced the amount of whales killed by Japan's ICR.

Japan's ICR has set itself a quota of nearly one thousand minke and 50 fin whales to be culled during the 2012/2013 Australian summer in Antarctica.

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Jan 21, 2013 - MELBOURNE, Australia — Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Founder, Captain Paul Watson, has been honoured with an Original Nation passport in a ceremony in Melbourne. On Friday January 19th, Sea Shepherd representatives (Anna Gordon and Jordan Crooka) accepted the passport on behalf of Captain Watson who is currently aboard Sea Shepherd’s flagship vessel, the SSS Steve Irwin. Having recently stepped down from Sea Shepherd U.S. and Sea Shepherd Australia, Captain Watson has remained on board the vessel to document Sea Shepherd’s ninth Antarctic Whale Defence Campaign, Operation Zero Tolerance. Coordinated by Jabbir Jabbir and Nyul Nyul man Rodney Augustine (from the Kimberley region), and signed-off by Tent Embassy Customs Officer Robbie Thorpe from the Krautungalung people of the Gunnai Nation, the traditional owners of Lake Tyers, the passport is a show of solidarity between the First Peoples of Australia and Captain Watson. At a time when leaders of many nations have left Captain Watson without assistance, it is an acknowledgement by the First Australians of the years he has spent looking after the planet and the creatures that call it home.

Mr. Thorpe said, “We appreciate what environmental warriors like Paul Watson do. Anyone out there defending our flora and fauna is welcome to Country. We look forward to welcoming Paul ashore with a Welcome to Country smoke ceremony, at which time we will give him an official indigenous name.”

Accepting the honour, Captain Watson made the following statement: “I am proud beyond measure to receive a passport from the First Australians, an indigenous community that continues to remain unbroken from the connection between the laws of nature and our species. When the Aboriginal people look upon the whales, they see a mind and a spirit akin to themselves and they feel that same relationship that has also guided me since 1975 when I first looked into the eye of a dying whale and saw another reality. There are very few within the anthropocentric society that truly understand what we do, and why we do what we do to defend the whales. But there are many amongst the bio-centric community who do see, listen, smell and feel the kinship between all of us who dwell on this planet within the continuum of life, from the past through the present into the future. I know the Krautungalung of the Gunnai Nation and all First Australian Nations know of what I speak. Thank you Rodney Augustine, Robbie Thorpe and all involved for your most honoured support.”

Jan 21, 2013 - "Southern Ocean Sanctuary a Slaughterhouse" Four Japanese whale-killing, factory ships armed with coast guards and grenade-tipped harpoons are within hours of entering a demilitarized zone and the international Great Southern Ocean Sanctuary. The bloody "War Against Nature" is set to rage. In a world in which the environment is being marauded, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is standing up and upholding the law to protect the great whales in an international sanctuary. Enough blood has been shed; in the 20th century humans slaughtered 1.5 million whales.

Four Sea Shepherd boats -- Steve Irwin, Bob Barker, Sam Simon and Brigette Bardot -- are being lead this year by former Australian Greens leader and environmental champion Dr. Bob Brown and former Australian Senator and former Environment Minister Ian Campbell. They have taken over from Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson who is restricted by a U.S. Court of Appeals preventing him from going within 500 yards of whale-killing ships. The Aussie leaders and 120 crew representing 24 nations (including Japan) are on a bold mission -- Operation Zero Tolerance: Zero Cruelty: Zero Kills.

It's the ninth year of the Sea Shepherd campaign to protect the great whales in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary. This year, in addition to a helicopter, two long-range aerial drones (donated by Bay Shore Recycling Corp, N.J.) are being used to quickly locate the Japanese fleet as they enter the sanctuary. The quicker the Sea Shepherd find the whalers, the quicker they can get on their tail; the sooner they can prevent any whale slaughtering.

As soon as Sea Shepherd discovers the whalers they closely follow the large fish-factory boats, blocking the stern-slipway. If the Japanese can't load whales -- they can't kill them. It's a very effective tactic -- in 2012 the Japanese only took 26 percent of their kill quota and even lower in 2011 at 17 percent.

The fiscal losses of the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR a Japanese government agency) in 2012 were $20.5 million. After a relentless nine-year Sea Shepherd campaign the whalers have lost $100 million. Japan's government-subsidized whaling program is indeed in strife. In 2011, the Japanese whaling industry siphoned $29 million from the March 2011 (tsunami) Earthquake Recovery Fund.

The Japanese 2013 quota of 935 minke whales, 50 fin whales and 50 humpback whales is set for lethal-scientific research, yet little (if any) peer-reviewed whale research has been released in the past quarter century by ICR. (The Japanese call a harpoon-tipped grenade that misses a whale -- a sampling error.) Instead the whale meat is sold into the marketplace.

The absurdity here is that Japanese are no longer buying the whale meat. In fact, in 2008 several tons of unsold whale meat was placed in cold storage.

Take a moment to read this emotive story about why Paul Watson has dedicated his life to saving whales, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks and life within our oceans. About a year ago my Chesapeake Bay retriever and I spent a half an hour, in a tiny dingy, feet away from a majestic blue whale -- an awesome experience.

"The War Against Nature" and the great whales must end after this 2013 season. No country has the right of entitlement to destroy the ocean -- our commons and our birthright -- especially in an international sanctuary.

Watson is correct: If we lose the sea turtles, dolphins, whales, sharks and other sea creatures we lose the web of life in the oceans. Humans cannot exist without the rich array of diversity that makes up our great oceans.

Consider this excerpt from Chris Maser and my forthcoming book: Life, The Wonder of it All:

"Our challenge in this century, therefore, is to raise the level of our consciousness of cause and effect with respect to the questions we ask and the decisions we make. We are, after all, trustees of this wonderful living trust called planet Earth -- and the children of all generations are the beneficiaries of our humility and wisdom or arrogance and folly. The choice of how and why we alter the Earth is ours, the adults of today. The consequence we bequeath to the children of today, tomorrow, and beyond, but we give them no voice in their future. How shall we choose--to protect the commons as the unconditional gift of Nature that is everyone's birthright or continue to fight over how we are going to carve it up for personal gain and so further despoil it for all generations?"

Japan's ICR has set itself a quota of nearly one thousand minke and 50 fin whales to be culled during the 2012/2013 Australian summer in Antarctica.

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*Update November 16, 2012*
For our children's children to have their opportunity to enjoy the breathtaking view of Gentle Ocean Giant, to have Ocean's blessings, your contribution would be the most significant, lasting and memorable effort - our kids would heartily thank us when we someday become invisible...

Image courtesy Sea Shepherd / Guardian