Related Articles

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Below is a list of links to articles written by Sea Shepherd about the Whale Campaign. These articles were originally posted in either our News Release or Commentary/Editorial sections.

To read articles as reported by the media (published in newspapers, magazines, and online) about Sea Shepherd and our efforts to save marine wildlife, please visit SSCS in the News.

Whale-related News Releases and Editorials
by Sea Shepherd:

2008

10/21/08
Will Humpbacks Be Targets for Japanese Harpoons this Year?

10/17/08
Sea Shepherd Prepares to Take on Japanese Whalers Alone This Year

10/07/08
A Whale for the Caring

10/02/08
Animal Planet Follows the Crew of Sea Shepherd in the new TV Series, Whale Wars

09/15/08
Shin-ken sho--bu

09/15/08
IWC Star Chamber to Decide the Fate of the World's Whales

08/24/08
Japanese Government Prepares Special Anti-Sea Shepherd Laws

08/23/08
Ecological Reality Catches Up With Norwegian Whalers

08/22/08
A Sad Good-bye to Collette

08/22/08
Guest Commentary: Former Australian Environment Minister Ian Campbell Questions Japanese Motives

08/21/08
The Mouse that Roared - Sea Shepherd Vs the Empire of the Rising Sun

08/21/08
Propaganda Wars Under the Rising Sun

08/18/08
Operation Musashi Heats Up Over Antarctic Whaling

08/12/08
Operation Musashi - Q and A with Captain Paul Watson

08/10/08
Whaling Under Attack in Japan by Former Japanese Whalers

07/21/08
Operation Musashi - The Entirely Possible Impossible Mission

07/07/08
Battleship Antarctica

07/04/08
Japanese Whalers Using Humpbacks To Blackmail the International Whaling Commission

07/02/08
Whale Killers Jailed

07/01/08
Operation Musashi - Designed for Controversy

06/27/08
IWC Wipes Out In Chile

06/26/08
2008-2009 Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Musashi

06/25/08
Lukewarm Meeting on Whaling in Chilly Chile

06/20/08
It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief Says Greenpeace

06/18/08
No Peace with Greenpeace it Seems

06/17/08
Has Australia Sold Out the Whales?

06/12/08
Sea Shepherd Prepares to Mount a Major Offensive Against Whaling

06/10/08
There is Something Very Rotten in Denmark

06/09/08
Will Australia Surrender the Whales to Japan?

06/06/08
Europe Unites to Defend the Whales

06/05/08
Sea Shepherd Offers the Olive Branch to Greenpeace Once Again

06/02/08
The Viking Samurai Smuggling Connection: The Japanese Icelandic Norwegian Cartel of Conservation Crime

05/29/08
Australian Greens Suggest that the Government Fund Sea Shepherd to Save the Whales

05/20/08
Viking and Samurai Whale Killers Defy International Law

05/20/08
Australian Political Hypocrites Order "Final Solution" on Kangaroos

05/15/08
Japanese Whalers are Crooks? Who would have thought?

05/15/08
How much is a Whale Worth? $20 Bucks According to the Makah Tribal Court

05/13/08
Japan To Use Military Space Technology to Help Kill Whales

05/09/08
New Zealand Surrenders to the Whalers; Australia Likely to Follow -- Sea Shepherd Will Fight On!

05/05/08
Norwegian Pirates Begin Killing Again

03/22/08
Sea Shepherd Supports Teens Against Whaling

04/17/08
Sea Shepherd Featured in New York Times

04/15/08
Japan Acknowledges Sea Shepherd's Defense of the Whales

04/11/08
Whale Killers Convicted for Killing Gray Whale

03/17/08
Whales and Kangaroos Down Under: A Tale of Two Hypocrisies

03/15/08
Sea Shepherds Home from the Sea

03/15/08
Odyssey For The Whales:
20,000 Miles, 68 Crew Members, And 83 Days At Sea For The Whales In The Southern Ocean

03/13/08
Sea Shepherd To Oppose Icelandic Whaling: Operation Ragnarök May Be Resurrected

03/13/08
Kamikaze Winds Savage Japanese Whaling Fleet

03/12/08
Keeping the Focus on the Southern Oceans and the Whales

03/10/08
Sea Shepherd Heads Home As Whaling Season Comes To A Close

03/08/08
Gun Shot Discharge?

03/08/08
Sea Shepherd Honoured by the International Whaling Commission

03/08/08
Whales, Japanese Lies, and Videotapes

03/08/08
Sea Shepherd Crew Head South In Search Of Harpoons

03/07/08
The Chase Continues as Japanese Whalers Issue Denials and Threats

03/07/08
Japanese Scramble to Spin Shooting Story

03/07/08
Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson Survives Shooting Attempt in Antarctica

03/07/08
Japanese Open Fire on Sea Shepherd Crew: Three Injured

03/06/08
The Great Southern Ocean Whaling Ship Chase - Day Thirteen

03/05/08
The Great Southern Ocean Whaling Ship Chase - Day Twelve

03/04/08
Illegal Whaling in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary - The Numbers

03/04/08
Whales Frolic in Peace around the Cetacean Death Ship

03/04/08
Sea Shepherd's Non-Toxic, Organic, Non-Violent Response to Whale Killers

03/03/08
The Sea Down Under

03/02/08
Sea Shepherd Ship Steve Irwin Engages Japanese Factory Ship Nisshin Maru In Whale Sanctuary

03/01/08
The Chase Continues - Day Eight: Pouncing on the Japanese Slaughterhouse in the Frozen Southern Mist

02/29/08
Crazy Cold Case Keystone Cops Comedy Chase Continues

02/29/08
The Chase Continues - Day Seven

02/29/08
Sea Shepherd Aussie Crew Prepared to Be Taken as Prisoners to Japan

02/28/08
The Chase Continues - Day Six

02/28/08
Sea Shepherd Receives Message From the Australian Government

02/27/08
The Chase Continues - Day Five

02/26/08
The Chase Continues - Day Four

02/25/08
The Chase Continues - Day Three

02/24/08
The Great Southern Ocean Chase - Day Two

02/24/08
Sea Shepherd Chases Japanese Fleet Out of Australian Waters

02/23/08
Documenting the Endangered Fish Killers off the Antarctic Coast

02/23/08
"Crimes" of Compassion in the Southern Oceans

02/23/08
Hot Pursuit in a Frozen Sea

02/23/08
The Japanese Whalers are On the Run Again

02/22/08
Captain Paul Watson Responds to the Yomiuri Shimbun

02/22/08
Captain Paul Watson Responds to the Australian Federal Police

02/21/08
A Warrant to Intervene

02/20/08
Norway Declares Death Sentence for 1052 Whales

02/19/08
Rolling Down To the Coast of Antarctica

02/18/08
Sea Shepherd Requests a Warrant from the Australian Government

02/15/08
Japanese Whalers on the Ropes Financially

02/13/08
Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Migaloo II

02/10/08
The World Wide Whale Wars

02/07/08
The Big Question: Have the Japanese seen off their opponents in the battle over whaling?

02/07/08
Japanese Whalers Documented Killing Whales by Australian Government

02/07/08
Sea Shepherd Getting Ready to Return to the Whale Wars

02/05/08
The Other Whaling Industry: Cashing in on the Suffering and Death of the Great Whales

02/02/08
Comments on BBC's Q&A on Whaling

02/01/08
Sea Shepherd Crew Anxious to Return to the Battle in the Southern Oceans

01/31/08
Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace - An Unfortunate Conflict

01/31/08
Sea Shepherd Ship the Steve Irwin Returns to Melbourne to Refuel And Re-Provision

01/31/08
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Needs Your Help to Return to the Southern Oceans

01/30/08
Sea Shepherd Being Pursued by Armed Japanese Coast Guard

01/30/08
Sea Shepherd Forced to Return to Australia

01/28/08
Sea Shepherd and the Steve Irwin Prepared to Return to Save Whales

01/27/08
Greenpeace Protects Japanese Whalers from Sea Shepherd

01/26/08
The Rocky Whaling Fleet Horror Show

01/25/08
Operation Migaloo Gets the Attention of the Japanese Prime Minister

01/25/08
The Birth of a New Manchuria

01/25/08
Japanese Whalers Continue to Flee Eastward

01/24/08
Odyssey of Compassion through the Great Southern Ocean

01/24/08
New Zealand Airforce Refuses Assistance to Whale Defenders

01/23/08
Sea Shepherd Critical of Greenpeace Failure to Stop Re-fueling

01/22/08
Japanese Professor Questions the Existence of Whaling Culture in Japan

01/22/08
Steve Irwin Bushwhacks Japanese Spy Ship

01/22/08
A Hot Crowded Pursuit in Cold Lonely Waters

01/21/08
Distracted by Strategy

01/21/08
Sea Shepherd Tailed By Japanese Mystery Ship

01/19/08
Sea Shepherd FAQ

01/18/08
Lack of Cooperation May Kill the Whales

01/18/08
Japanese Poachers Release Sea Shepherd Hostages

01/17/08
Sea Shepherd Shuts Down Antarctic Whale Hunt

01/17/08
The Cold War at the Bottom of the Planet to Save the Whales

01/16/08
Sea Shepherd Crew Remain Hostages On The Japanese Whaling Ship

01/16/08
Japanese Whalers Make Demands for Return of Hostages

01/16/08
Sea Shepherd Crew Continue to Be Held Hostage by Japan

01/15/08
Japanese Whalers Kidnap Two Sea Shepherd Whale Defenders

01/15/08
Japanese Whaling Fleet On the Run With Two Sea Shepherd Hostages

01/15/08
Japanese Whalers holding two Sea Shepherd crew members hostage on whaling ship

01/15/08
Sea Shepherd is Engaging the Japanese Fleet

01/14/08
Whalers Admit They Are Running from Sea Shepherd

01/14/08
Black Market Whale Meat Seized in South Korea

01/13/08
Cowardly Whalers Running Scared Out of the Whale Sanctuary

01/13/08
Sea Shepherd Joins the Chase for the Whalers

01/12/08
Bermudians Deliver a Strong Message to Japan

01/12/08
Sea Shepherd is Moving In On the Japanese Whaling Fleet

01/11/08
Standing Up for the Whales in Bermuda

01/10/08
The Art of Finding Whalers

01/10/08
Ian Campbell Joins the Sea Shepherd Advisory Board

01/06/08
Australian Government Assisting Whalers?

01/02/08
Flim Flannery Environmentalism

01/02/08
The Hunt for the Killers Resumes

01/01/08
The Australian Government Is Betraying the Whales

2007

12/30/07
U.S. Government Backing Pirate Whalers in Antarctica

12/21/07
Hideki Eats Crow

12/21/07
Temporary Victory For Migaloo

12/21/07
Steve Irwin to Make Quick "Pit Stop" in Melbourne

12/20/07
The Curse of Ahab's Children

12/20/07
Sea Shepherd Offers Helicopter Support to Greenpeace

12/19/07
Sea Shepherd Responds to Australian Government: "Enforce The Bloody Laws, Mate"

12/16/07
The Search for the Killers Has Begun

12/12/07
The Killing is About to Begin, Where is Everybody?

12/12/07
Captain Paul Watson calls on the New Australian Government to Act for the Whales

12/07/07
The Spirit of Steve Irwin

12/05/07
Sea Shepherd Renames Its Whale Defending Ship the Steve Irwin

11/27/07
Meet the Dr. Mengele of Whales

11/26/07
Political Victory for the Whales

11/23/07
Five Incompetent Makah Make a Mockery of Traditional Whaling

11/22/07
Open Appeal to Greenpeace for Cooperation to Save Whales

11/20/07
Sea Shepherd Will Not Ram Any Japanese Ships

11/20/07
The Whale Killers Are On the Way

11/19/07
Australian based Maori Musician Mihirangi Prepares to Head South to Defend the Whales

11/15/07
Taking on the Goliath of Doom from the Land of the Rising Sun

11/12/07
Japan Targets Migaloo?

10/16/07
Norwegian Whaling Vessel's Career is Finished

10/06/07
With Enemies Like These, the Whales May Have a Chance

09/30/07
Japanese Incompetence Kills Another Whaler

09/20/07
Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Migaloo to Defend Whales in Antarctic Whale Sanctuary

09/14/07
The Makah Tribe Must Be Denied a Permit to Kill Whales

09/09/07
Five Makah Whalers Arrested for Torturing and Killing a Whale

09/02/07
Sunken Whaler Was a Cruel Killer

09/01/07
Norwegian Whaler Sunk

08/31/07
Dolphin Massacre in Macapá Unmasked: Pressure against IBAMA Continues

08/31/07
Two Tales of Saving Whales: Book Reviews by Paul Watson

08/24/07
Iceland Officially Cancels Whaling Operations for the Next Year

08/17/07
Operation Ragnarök Stands Down and Remains on Guard

08/03/07
Hawaiian Super Ferry New Threat to Whales

08/02/07
Does President Bush Hate Whales?

06/07/07
Guest Commentary by Dr. Paul Spong - IWC 59 Day Four - Rays of Light for the Whales

06/07/07
Whales Win, Japan Loses at CITES

06/04/07
The IWC (Irrational Wacky Comedy) Meeting

06/01/07
Guest Commentary by Dr. Paul Spong - IWC 59 Day Four - Taking the Marbles Home

06/01/07
Guest Commentary by Horst Kleinschmidt - No Middle Ground

05/31/07
Sea Shepherd Honored by Recognition from International Whaling Commission

05/30/07
IWC Meeting Report – Day Two

05/29/07
Teens Against Whaling Speak Out for the Whales

05/28/07
Japan Seeks Special IWC Resolution Against Sea Shepherd

05/27/07
Captain Paul Watson to Attend the IWC Meeting in Anchorage

05/23/07
Sea Shepherd Applauds the Labour and Green Parties of Oz

05/21/07
The Gray Whale is in Danger – Yet the Killing Continues

05/19/07
Australia May Get Tough with Pirate Whalers

05/18/07
Sea Shepherd Steadfast in its Goal to Defend Whales from Icelandic Whalers

05/14/07
Sea Shepherd to Shut Down Illegal Whaling in Iceland

03/23/07
Japanese Whaling Fleet Returns Home in Disgrace

03/12/07
Greenpeace Eats Whales to "Save" Them - UPDATE! By Captain Watson

03/09/07
Cities of Casey & Melbourne Receive the Sea Shepherd Crew with Honors

03/06/07
Australia Denounces Illegal Icelandic Whaling

02/27/07
Sea Shepherd Assists Greenpeace

02/24/07
The Death Star Returns to the Land of the Rising Sun

02/24/07
Australia Welcomes Back Antarctic Whale Defenders

02/23/07
Meet Ginza Glen – Corporate Whore for the Whale Killers!

02/17/07
How We Destroyed the Nisshin Maru

02/16/07
The End of the Japanese Cetacean Death Star

02/16/07
Greenpeace Eats Whales to "Save" Them

02/15/07
Japanese Negligence Threatens Antarctic Ecosystem

02/14/07
Japanese Whalers Shut Down By Their Own Folly

02/14/07
Sea Shepherd Begins Return from Antarctica

02/12/07
Sea Shepherd Makes Agreement with NZ Conservation Minister

02/12/07
Who Rammed Whom?

02/11/07
Sea Shepherd Saves Whale Pod from Whalers

02/11/07
It's About the Whales!

02/10/07
Dealing with the Hypocrisy of the Human Perceptions

02/10/07
Walk the Walk, Mr. Carter, Don't just Talk the Talk

02/10/07
The Times, London, Corrects Error

02/09/07
The London Times Gets It Wrong

02/09/07
Japanese Claims of Injuries are Bogus

02/08/07
Sea Shepherd’s Whale Saving Crew are Rescued

02/08/07
Whalers Activities Disrupted by Sea Shepherd

02/08/07
Japanese Whaling Fleet Forced to Run from Sea Shepherd

02/08/07
Japanese Whaling Fleet Forced to Run from Sea Shepherd

02/05/07
With Friends Like This

01/30/07
New Zealand Air Force Spotted Japanese Whalers – Won’t Release Location of the Fleet

01/27/07
$25,000 Reward for Japanese Whalers’ Coordinates

01/17/07
Captain Watson Responds to Tets Kimura's Op-Ed Piece in the Melbourne Age

01/15/07
Australia Shuts Ports to Japanese Whalers

01/15/07
We Need to Focus on the Real Violence in the Whale Sanctuary

01/14/07
The Impossible Mission

01/11/07
Japanese Threaten to Attack the Sea Shepherd Flagship Farley Mowat

01/10/07
Captain Watson Replies to Australian Senator

01/09/07
Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Leviathan with New Ship Robert Hunter

01/05/07
Pirates of Compassion Sail into Hostile Waters

2006

12/23/06
Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Leviathan with Flagship Farley Mowat

12/18/06
Whole Foods Market Bans Icelandic Fish

12/18/06
Australian Environment Minister Stands Strong Against Whaling

12/15/06
Sea Shepherd Will Investigate the Potential for the "Big Splash"

12/15/06
Why Killing Whales is Murder

12/11/06
Australian Minister of the Environment Supports Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign

12/08/06
Sea Shepherd Teams Up With Lonely Planet to Save the Whales

12/07/06
Sea Shepherd Applauds New Aussie Naval Rules of Engagement

12/05/06
Norway Sentences 1,052 Whales to Death

11/29/06
The Slaughter of the Gentle and the Innocent in the Ferocious Isles

11/07/06
Japanese Pirate Whalers Preparing for Departure for Antarctica

11/05/06
Japanese Whalers Murder 35 Piked Whales off Northern Island of Hokkaido

11/03/06
Pilots and Jet Owners Bypass Iceland for the Whales

11/01/06
Sea Shepherd Welcomes International Intervention Against Iceland

10/23/06
Sea Shepherd Calls on Total Boycott of Iceland

10/23/06
Iceland Murders Its First Endangered Whale

10/18/06
Iceland Becomes Rogue Whaling Nation Again

09/14/06
Sea Shepherd Launches “Operation Leviathan” to Defend Whales

08/30/06
Cursed Makah Whaling Canoe Retired

08/16/06
Japanese Poacher Killed in Russian Waters

08/15/06
Japan Plundering the Oceans of Tuna

08/08/06
Only Four Months Until Outlaw Japanese Whaling Fleet Departs for Antarctica

07/26/06
Japanese Whale Killers Target Pregnant Whales

07/24/06
Sea Shepherd Flagship Farley Mowat to Arrive in Melbourne July 25, 2006

07/16/06
Japanese Bribery Revealed – Sea Shepherd Charges Yakusa Connection with Whaling

07/15/06
Sea Shepherd Receives Honors from Western Australia

07/11/06
Captain Paul Watson Responds to Japanese Senior Consul General Makoto Hinei

07/10/06
Farley Mowat Arrives in Oz – Sea Shepherd’s flagship docks in Fremantle

07/09/06
Sea Shepherd Enforcement Vessel Arrives in Western Australia

07/07/06
Die Burger Backs Sea Shepherd's Defense of the Whales

07/05/06
Re-Paying Jonah’s Debt to the Whale

06/27/06
The Truth About “Traditional” Japanese Whaling

06/26/06
Whaling in Mongolia

06/22/06
The Power of One Can End the Killing of the Whales

06/20/06
The Whaling Games End in St. Kitts

06/20/06
South African Authorities Say They are “Done” with Farley Mowat

06/19/06
St. Kitts Declaration is an Insight into Human Ecological Insanity

06/19/06
How the IWC Nations Are Voting

06/18/06
Japan Fails In Effort To Abolish The Southern Ocean Sanctuary

06/16/06
Japan Fails to Take Control of the IWC

06/16/06
Sea Shepherd Ship Escapes from South Africa

06/15/06
Saving Leviathan

06/08/06
Japan Declares Bloody War on the Whales

05/31/06
Japanese Research Whaling Finally Reveals Exciting Discovery

05/26/06
Greenpeace Refuses to Help Pro-Whale Nations

05/25/06
Japan to Murder 260 Whales in the North Pacific this Summer

05/11/06
Sea Shepherd Urges New Zealand to Withdraw Aid from Pro-Whaling Nations

05/10/06
Former Vice-Chair of the International Whaling Commission Joins Sea Shepherd Board

04/29/06
Israel Joins the Ranks of the Whale Defenders

04/25/06
Criminal Norwegian Whalers Dismiss World Opinion

04/25/06
Groups With Money NOW Have Their Chance to Save the Whales