Seaworld San Diego is about to build the world's biggest tank for its captive orcas. Fifty foot deep and covering 1.5 acres, it's almost twice as big as current tanks and will represent an improvement in living conditions when complete in 2018. But for Sea Shepherd, that's missing the point. For these wild and majestic sea mammals, only the ocean will do.
… money on super-size tanks. Orcas need the ocean! Sea Shepherd | 7th September 2014 Comment Oceans USA Corporations Cetaceans … these wild and majestic sea mammals, only the ocean will do. Dear Seaworld, Your stocks are …
Out in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, the Cape Verde islands should be pristine, writes Simon Ager, a haven for sea turtles and other wildlife. But the beach where loggerhead turtles have nested for millions of years is buried under a deadly morass of plastic garbage.
… Shepherd | 6th October 2014 Activism Reptiles Oceans Waste Cape Verde … is nothing but the mountains rising from the ocean floor, black sand blending into dirty … disorientated turtles, returning them to the ocean. Some are not so lucky, succumbing to …
For nearly 30 years, Gil Fortes was a hunter of Cabo Verde's shearwater chicks, helping to drive the bird to the brink of extinction. But following a life-changing rethink, he and his daughter Isabel (Bella), are now at the forefront of efforts to save the shearwater and rebuild its perilously low numbers.
… shearwater hunter to protector of birds and ocean Gil Rodrigues Fortes Sea Shepherd | 23rd November 2014 Ethical Living Oceans Birds Hunting Conservation Society …
Shearwater chicks are cute grey furballs with beaks, writes Simon Ager, and they are all too ready to use them on pesky wildlife researchers. But Cape Verde offers abundant compensations to nature lovers - so many that its future surely lies in conserving, not exploiting its biological riches.
… Shepherd | 22nd October 2014 Ethical Living Oceans Birds Natural World … are magnificent! As the sun drops into the ocean through the serenity, geckos begin to … join the choir leaving the nests for the ocean to feed. Daring not to sit up at this …
Denmark's unlawful support of the Faroese 'grind' whale hunt is now open and obvious for all to see, writes Captain Paul Watson, as the supposedly 'civilized' Scandinavian nation turns its military might against protestors seeking to save whales and small cetaceans from cruel and barbaric massacre.
A 'Friend of the Sea' Dutch-owned trawler certified to supply 'sustainably caught' shrimp to the US and EU was arrested in Liberia after operating in an an area reserved for artisanal fishers, writes Peter Hammarstedt. The vessel, which had no licence and lacked the turtle excluders required by law, was discovered by the crew of Sea Shepherd's 'Bob Barker' in a joint mission with the Liberian Coast Guard to clamp down on rampant illegal fishing.
… Sea Shepherd | 26th May 2017 Activism Oceans Fishing Regulation Liberia USA EU …
This year's 'Grind' in the Faroe Islands was as bloody as ever, writes Captain Paul Watson, who witnessed the slaughter of a pod of 22 pilot whales with vicious hooks and long knives. If Denmark wants to be considered a 'civilised' nation, it must stop its aggressive support for the cruel and barbaric tradition.