Sea Shepherd: "YAY!" Greenpeace: "Fuck off!"

I love this. At last there is an environmental group out there actually doing something about helping the endangered species other than collecting money to support the great-unwashed lifestyle of the Greenpeace bludgers and the Rent-a-Crowd mentality of the tree hugging hippies.

Singing songs; collecting social security and hassling celebrities (ie: PETA - for more info on what this organisation is really about, check out PETA Kills Animals.

If you want to donate to a truly worthy cause, then Sea Shepherd is the way to go.

Environmentalists vow to ram whaling vessels

November 20, 2007 08:39am
Article from: AAP

RADICAL environmentalist group Sea Shepherd has again vowed to ram Japanese vessels involved in the hunting of whales, including humpback whales, in the Antarctic Ocean.

Japan's six-vessel whaling fleet took off from the western port of Shimonoseki for its five-month voyage on Sunday heading to the Antarctic Ocean for a hunt that will include humpback whales for the first time.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says it will physically stop the hunt by ramming whaling vessels if necessary.

"Basically we're going down there to stop them," Sea Shepherd's Jonny Vasic told Channel 9 this morning.

"We're not going down there to protest; we're going down to directly intervene and put an end to this criminal behaviour.

"We've been known to ram a vessel that's engaged in illegal activity as a last ditch effort to get them to stop.

"We have a reputation of direct action and we mean business.

"We, too, are a non-violent group, but we don't have a problem with economic destruction when it's engaged in illegal activity."

During the last expedition, Sea Shepherd activists threw bottles of chemicals at the whalers in hopes of disrupting them.

The group was also involved in a ramming incident with the Japanese whalers.

Karli Thomas from the environmental group Greenpeace, said they were determined to stop the hunt once the fleet reached the Southern Ocean, but would not go to the same lengths as Sea Shepherd.

"We will do what we can in the bounds of non-violent direct action to stop them hunting whales," Ms Thomas told Nine.

"So that means putting ourselves between the harpoon and the whales, preventing them from taking a shot, and being able to save individual whales from the harpoon.

"We certainly have never rammed a vessel, and we don't intend to."

Humpback whales have been protected under a 1966 worldwide moratorium after years of overhunting.

Japan, which argues that whale meat is part of its culture, planned to kill 950 whales on the five-month mission using a loophole in a global moratorium that allows lethal research on the giant mammals.

Australia, Britain and New Zealand have condemned the decision to go ahead with the catch.