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By: The Understory » Saving Mr. Splashy Pants

The Understory » Saving Mr. Splashy Pants — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:51:50 +0000

[...] by Sparki in RAN General on January 14th, 2008 Update on the story I blogged last [...]

By: sparki

sparki — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:00:19 +0000

Greenpeace ended the Japanese whale slaughter this season by running their floating whale processing ship of death out of the killing zone.

Check it out–http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011408EB.shtml

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:37:20 +0000

no….

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:56:31 +0000

I’d say, governments would probably never admit that they’re influenced by people like Greenpeace, but they nevertheless are.

Whaling agreements sure don’t bode well for the future of climate change agreements, do they?

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:30:39 +0000

well, i read the news coverage of that a few days ago, and it is attributed to the US government asking Japan not to hunt humpbacks, i forget which agency or diplomat or whoever actually did the negotiating, but i think that’s how it all happened.

i guess anything helps, although i’m pretty depressed about the worldwide efforts to stop the hunting of whales. nothing seems to really work, since the agreements nations make with each other along these lines are never legally binding.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:25:46 +0000

I did hear that this year they won’t be hunting humpbacks, which might be in part due to Greenpeace’s efforts.

By: ann

ann — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:16:08 +0000

sparki,

what do you mean, your friends roll their eyes and laugh?
you need to get new friends; japan creates a lot of misery and painful death for a huge number of whales every year with their annual hunt.

i’m quite traumatized by this more and more each year. no progress seems to be made in getting japan to stop either.
greenpeace is totally ineffective as is the whole government of Austalia, and Sea Shepherd needs such vast amounts of money to do anything effective; and while sea shepherd does make a dent in the harvest, i’m depressed about the future for whales. dolphins are also mercilessly persecuted by japan every year.

i read a news article the other day that said that japan is building a new whaling ship to replace the Nissan Maru, which is getting too old for them to use anymore.