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Humpback whale songs recorded and streamed live from Hervey Bay OZ 2007

Marina wrap up
Sunset Singing 3rd Oct

Taking on the Goliath of Doom from the Land of the Rising Sun
Commentary by Paul Watson
Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
The Japanese whaling fleet is so threatened by Sea Shepherd's history of successful interventions that they have officially appealed to the governments ofAustralia and New Zealand to detain our vessels and to not allow them to depart for the Southern Oceans.

Media Release Nov 19th 2007
The Japanese Whaling fleet left the port of Shimonoseki in Japan on Sunday the 18th for the Antarctic to kill over 1000 whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary under the guise of ‘scientific’ whaling. This kill includes 50 endangered fin whales, 50 endangered humpback whales and 935 minke whales. This is the biggest hunt since the moratorium on commercial whaling came into force more than 20 years ago and for the first time in almost three decades the Japanese want to include the humpbacks on their menu.

NEWS RELEASE: High Noon At the Killing Cove - Taiji Japan
Pro Surfer Dave Rastovich, Actress Hayden Panettiere and 20 others risk arrest in Japan paddling out for dolphins’ future.
Oct. 28, 2007

Blood Monday: Dave Rastovich, Hayden Panettiere and Five Other Real-Life Heroes Make A Daring Pre-dawn Mission Back to Japanese Dolphin Auschwitz. Take action see http://www.savejapandolphins.org/takeAction.html

National Defense Beats Whales in Sonar Case

SANTA ANA, California, September 4, 2007 (ENS) - The U.S. Navy will be permitted to proceed with underwater sonar blasts in anti-submarine warfare exercises off the coast of Southern California, although the loud sounds might hurt endangered whales, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals suspended an August 6 injunction by a federal judge in Los Angeles that blocked the Navy from using medium frequency sonar off the Channel Islands in tests planned through January 2009 while the case is being heard in court. Three of the 14 scheduled "SOCAL" tests have already been conducted.

ANTI WHALING PROTESTERS DELIVER LETTER TO JAPANESE VICE CONSUL
To coincided with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit to Australia to attend APEC

Icelandic Fisheries Minister Einar K. Guofinnsson has announced that the Icelandic government will not issue new quotas for whales when the present quota expires on August 31st. "I will not issue a new quota until the market conditions for whale meat improve and permission to export whale products to Japan is secured," said Guofinnsson. "There is no reason to continue commercial whaling if there is no demand for the product."

help SKYE BORTOLI from http://www.teensagainstwhaling.com/ hand deliver whaling petition to Prime Minister of Japan go to http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/541398550

WarGames Protesters enter Shoalwater Bay military base

'Taiji officials: Dolphin meat 'toxic waste'
Special to The Japan Times. Take action see http://www.savejapandolphins.org/takeAction.html

For what is believed to be the first time anywhere in Japan, elected officials have openly condemned the consumption of dolphin meat, especially in school lunches, on grounds that it is dangerously contaminated with mercury.

MEDIA RELEASE 15/07/07

GATHERING TO COMMEMORATE BABY WHALE STRANDING, CABARITA, 17th July

Howie Cooke from Surfers for Cetaceans and Dean Jefferys of Byron Whale Action Group have called a gathering at North Cabarita Beach to honour the memory of a baby female humpback whale who stranded there one year ago and was with-held 20 hours from the sea by NPWS and then killed with lethal injections.

Thanks Migaloo for your help. You really are the icon of the migration. I saw Bunna Lawrie today and he said Migaloos smart and planned the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets keep them hopping and make sure they stop using sonar in Shoalwater and in all whale areas and get these dangerous sonar out of all the oceans.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1964000.htm
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/28/1964944.htm
Here is some research from NRDC that may help you.
http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/sonar.asp

Hi all,some urgent action required to help the whales from military sonar.
Here is the link and story about whales and sonar
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=42258&newsdate=31-May... http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21969621-952,00.html
Please give Dr Brendan Nelson MP a call ask him to stop all sonar testing. ministerfordefence@defence.gov.au Tel: 02 6277 7800
MEDIA RELEASE. 26-6-07.WHITE WHALE "MIGALOO" FACES POSSIBLE DEATH WITH WAR GAME SONAR

I am a whale lover who looks forward to the annual migration of humpbacks up the east coast of Australia. I and concerned by a report released at this week's International Whaling Commission IWC meeting in Alaska by the commission's Scientific Committee which said Powerful warship sonar could cause widespread whale beaching or large-scale whale deaths or injuries. This could result from the Military exercises planned by Australia and the United States next month off Shoal-water bay near Yepoon.

Some people are saying boycotting is another way to pressure japan to stop killing whales following is some info from http://boycottjapan.org/ I guess the same strategy could be applied to Iceland Norway and Denmark.??? Sealords are off the hook. We won that one.

Boycott Japan NOW
Monday, 07 August 2006
Help Save Whales and Boycott Japan NOW.
Send an email(s) to Japanese associations with your pledge, for example:
"I WILL NOT TRAVEL TO JAPAN OR BUY JAPANESE GOODS UNTIL SUCH TIMES AS JAPAN STOPS KILLING WHALES"

The IWC ends: But what about the Baiji and the Vaquita?
Posted by Greenpeace team (at the last day of the International Whaling Commission, in Anchorage, Alaska)

The functional extinction of an entire species the Baiji dolphin - got just fifteen minutes of fame (or maybe less) here at the International Whaling Commission meeting. The Vaquita, the Mexican dolphin likely to become extinct in the near future got about as much notice. No time at all was spent on the estimated 3,288 cetaceans that have died worldwide as bycatch since the 59th IWC meeting began, plus the incalculable

The Irrational Wacky Comedy Meeting
The 59th International Whaling Commission Meeting - Anchorage, Alaska
Report from Captain Paul Watson

I have not attended a meeting of the International Whaling Commission since 1997. I only did so then as a special invited guest of His Highness Prince Albert of Monaco because the 50th meeting was hosted in that great little nation exactly a decade ago.

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