whaling

Denmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade, a Danish lawyer

COPENHAGEN, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, detained in Greenland and awaiting possible extradition to Japan, has appealed to

COPENHAGEN, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will remain in detention in Greenland after he was arrested in the Danish

COPENHAGEN, Aug 1 (Reuters) – Japan is seeking the extradition of a U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling activist, who has been held in

STOCKHOLM, July 22 (Reuters) – A U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling activist has been detained in Greenland and faces possible extradition to Japan

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Tom Bateman TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of Japan’s first domestically-built whaling mothership in more than seven

COPENHAGEN, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Iceland has suspended the operations of one of its two whaling vessels for taking too long to kill a fin whale,

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by gCaptain in 2016 and is being republished now because it’s lessons are timeless and

Ryan Jones (The Conversation)–Every year, an estimated 13 million people go whale-watching around the world, marveling at the sight of the

By Elaine Lies and Masashi Kato KUSHIRO, Japan, July 1 (Reuters) – Five small ships sailed out of harbor on Monday in Japan’s first commercial

The controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has kicked off its 11th Antarctic whale defense campaign with two Sea Shepherd vessels now on their way to

gCaptain Note: On Tuesday gCaptain published an article titled “Sea Shepherd Claims It Will Stay Away From Japan Whaling Ships“… the original

TOKYO, March 24 (Reuters) – Japan’s whaling fleet returned on Thursday from its Antarctic hunt after a year-long suspension with a take of more

Archaeologists have discovered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after their sinking off the Arctic coast of Alaska along

by Lily Nonomiya  (Bloomberg) Japan plans to renew its research hunt for whales in the Antarctic, ending an almost two-year hiatus prompted by an

The hard-line antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says it has agreed to pay US$2.55 million in damages for its continued obstruction of

The world’s last remaining wooden-hulled whaling ship, Charles W. Morgan got underway this weekend after spending the past 73 years up the Mystic River

Judges at the highest U.N. court ordered Japan on Monday to halt whaling in the Antarctic, rejecting its long-held argument that the catch was for scientific

New Zealand summoned Japan's ambassador on Monday to protest the entry of a Japanese whaling ship into its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), after clashes earlier

Check out this video released today by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society showing a aggressive confrontation between the Sea Shepherd and Japanese whaling