This is What Real Environmentalist Do!!! Sea Shepherd Taking No Prisoners In Defending whales.
Check out the pictures on these two sites > http://smh.com.au/news/world/look-up-whale-warriors--the-air-attack-is-coming/2006/01/09/1136771500767.html http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0601/S00035.htm Rick. Look up, whale warriors, the air attack is coming, 1-10-06 http://smh.com.au/news/world/look-up-whale-warriors--the-air-attack-is-coming/2006/01/09/1136771500767.html Look up, whale warriors - the air attack is coming January 10, 2006 JAPAN will consider scrambling police aircraft to the Antarctic to defend its whaling fleet and may ask Australia to act against Greenpeace, as anti-whaling protests intensify in the Southern Ocean. "If Greenpeace action becomes more aggressive, the Fisheries Agency may ask the Maritime Police Agency to dispatch aircraft," the deputy director of the Far Seas Fisheries Division of Japan's Fisheries Agency, Mr Hideki Moronuki told the Herald yesterday. "Or the agency may ask the Government of Australia to take action to normalise the situation." Japanese alarm is rising over the scale of protests following an attempt by the group Sea Shepherd to disable the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru after it collided with the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise on Sunday. Sea Shepherd activists in inflatable dinghies tried to foul the propellers of the Nisshin Maru with heavy ropes, the group said yesterday. Driving close under the bow of the Nisshin Maru, the activists from the Sea Shepherd vessel, Farley Mowat, unsuccessfully tried to heave the lines under the hull to entangle its propellers. The action follows a pledge by Sea Shepherd's leader, Paul Watson, to attack the world's only remaining factory whaling ship. "This ship is the Death Star for the whales and we intend to shut it down," Mr Watson said. The existence of a contingency plan for Japan's whaling fleet which includes a possible request to Canberra for protection, creates a diplomatic minefield for Australia. Japan is Australia's biggest trading partner and a crucial regional ally. Mr Moronuki said that the exact plans for guarding the six-vessel whaling fleet were top-secret. He said the Maritime Police Agency did not have personnel on the Nisshin Maru but a government official was on board as an observer and to report on its progress. The length of the flight between an air base in Japan and the Antarctic raises the prospect that Australia would be needed for a refuelling stop, and may be asked to grant access to an air corridor. However, it is unclear just what action a flight by aircraft over the warring fleets could achieve. Mr Moronuki said he was gathering more information about the actions of Greenpeace but the situation had not deteriorated to the point where police action or intervention by Australia was required. Japan, which says whaling is part of its heritage, defends its annual harvest in the Southern Ocean as legal research into whales and their habitat. Opponents say it is a slaughter and a commercial operation masquerading as science, and object to the increase in Japan's whale-killing quota this year to 850 minke and 10 fin whales. Japan has not yet made an official request for the Australian Government to intervene, but it may be difficult for Japan to make a case because it does not recognise Australia's sovereignty over Antarctic waters. A spokeswoman for the Federal Minister for the Environment, Ian Campbell, said: "Our main concern is that all parties ensure the safety of crews as their first priority." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com contact owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] no flaming arguing or denigration of others allowed contact owner with complaints regarding posting/list or anything else. Thank you. please share/comment/inform and mostly enjoy this list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quick_vegetarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
