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.

As the Esperanza continues to shadow the Nisshin Maru, the whaling fleet’s factory ship - preventing any whaling - our crew is sending a message direct from the Southern Ocean linking the scandal of whaling to a host of other scandals plaguing...

In a setback to the whaling industry worldwide, Iceland's fisheries minister has just announced he will not issue any more commercial whale-hunting quotas.

In early November, a six-vessel fleet set out from Japan to the Southern Oceans Whale Sanctuary with the sole intention of harpooning nearly 1,000 whales. Days later, two of our ships were on the whalers' heels, to make sure that didn't happen. ...

This year the Japanese government aims to hunt almost 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean whales sanctuary. Once again Greenpeace will be there to defend the whales.

Following a 10-day search in Antarctic waters, the Greenpeace ship Esperanza has found Japan’s whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The whaling fleet immediately took flight from the Esperanza, which is now in high-speed...

The whaling fleet has crossed the 60 degree latitude line, leaving the whaling grounds behind - at least for this season. Officials in Tokyo have finally acknowledged publicly that the deadly fire crippling the fleet's factory ship means an...