A four-month Greenpeace undercover investigation has revealed disturbing evidence of an embezzlement ring involving crew on board the Japanese whaling ship, Nisshin Maru. We hand-delivered a letter to the Japanese Embassy in Canberra, calling for a thorough investigation.
After five months at sea, the Japanese whaling fleet recently arrived in Japan having taken around half the number of whales from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary as planned, but still 551 whales too many.
Japanese whalers have announced that they are struggling to harpoon their quota this year. As the season draws to a close, they have caught less than half the 985 whales they targeted.
The next big threat to whales is a push by pro-whaling countries, like Japan, to gain control of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to force a resumption of commercial whaling.
Every year the Japanese government spends $US 4.7 million of taxpayers' money to subsidise the whaling industry. However, 87% of Japanese people are completely unaware of what their taxes are funding, according to a new Greenpeace commissioned, opinion poll.
The Japanese whaling fleet has again defied world opinion and resumed whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
The Australian Customs vessel, the Oceanic Viking, reports that the Fisheries Agency of Japan’s whaling fleet has killed at least five whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
After two weeks successfully preventing the Japanese whaling fleet from hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, saving over 100 whales, the Greenpeace ship Esperanza is running low on fuel and is bound for Hobart.
Our actions have stopped whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary for 11 days, saving countless whales. Japan confirms that whaling has stopped because Greenpeace is following their fleet.
Following a week of potentially crippling budgetary reviews and a visit from US President Barack Obama,Japan's whaling fleet crept out of port at 10am today (12noon AEDT).
