Up close and personal in the war between Sea Shepherd and the whalers
Sam Vincent
THE Salvation Army band is playing Jingle Bells when the Brigitte Bardot, looking like a floating fighter jet, opens its hatch.
Eco-pirates are more interesting than the Salvos and the Bardot soon attracts a small crowd of onlookers. Named for the French actress turned animal rights activist, the Bardot is a high-speed trimaran belonging to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a vigilante marine-protection group whose members are considered eco-terrorists by the Japanese government. Captained by the Canadian Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd’s vegan fleet – known as “Neptune’s Navy” – espouses non-violent direct action in a bid to stop whalers, sealers and illegal tuna and shark-fin fishermen …
The Australian – September 06, 2014 12:00 AM
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/…
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The World’s Forests Are Being Degraded at an Alarming Rate, and That’s Hurting Elephants, Tigers, and Bears
By Richard Conniff
A first-of-its-kind study finds 250 million acres of forest have been fractured by human development since 2000.
Deforestation—the worldwide destruction of forests—is the calamitous problem that everybody worries about. But a new analysis ( intactforests.org/news.html ) makes the case that forest degradation is also happening at “alarming speed” and may be just as bad, particularly for wildlife …
TakePart – September 05, 2014
www.takepart.com/article/2014/…
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