Whaling showdown in the Southern Ocean

..the Ady Gill was quick enough to sprint between the whales being targeted and the harpoon guns that were about to kill them. But now the vessel has been sliced in two...

7 January 2010

Futuristic vessels. The deployment of spy planes. A life-or-death battle to save the planet, and a bid to protect an endangered species. It sounds like the plot from the global blockbuster, Avatar, but we are talking, of course, about the annual clashes between the Japanese whaling fleet and conservation groups in the southernmost reaches of the planet, Antarctica.

For the past six southern summers, conservations groups, like Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd, have sought to disrupt the Japanese whaling fleet, and in the past few days their clashes have escalated to the point of an all-out whaling war, in the words of the captain of one of the Sea Shepherd ships.....

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