Anti-whale-hunting activists who spent January and February in the Antarctic claim they are at war with the Japanese whaling fleet. Marine activist group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society describe their recent campaign to stop the whalers as ‘astoundingly effective’. But it came at a cost: a vessel almost cut in half, lives put at risk and the arrest of one of their number.
It was the sixth voyage by the conservation group to the 50 million km2 South Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Their aim was to prevent Japanese whalers catching hundreds of minke whales, under a permit issued by the Japanese Government, for scientific research.
