Tag: Animal Planet
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Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson Confident Germany Won't Send Him to Costa Rica for Trial
With a new season of Whale Wars upon us, I had a chance to talk to Paul Watson to get an update on his possible extradition to Costa Rica and who's really pulling the strings in this curiously-timed arrest.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes Lands Humane Society Award For Animal Rights Awareness
Runner-ups included Rio, War Horse and Dolphin Tale.
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Japan's Whalers Catch Just 30% of Target Due to Sea Shepherd Harassment
Though weather conditions also played a factor in the lower-than-expected catch numbers, "there were definitely sabotage campaigns behind the figure," according to Japanese officials.
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Sea Shepherd Ship Detained In Shetland Islands - $1.4m Bond Needed To Free It
After last year's successful actions against illegal bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean, Sea Shepherd is facing a legal setback. The activist organization, subject on Animal Planet's Whale Wars series, has been hit by a lawsuit brought by
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Japanese Whalers Say Sea Shepherd Is Their Main Obstacle
For most TreeHugger readers and watchers of Animal Planet's Whale Wars, that Sea Shepherd has been having a huge impact on Japanese whaling in the Antarctic is well known. Now the whalers admit that it sees the harassment from Sea Shepherd as the
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"Sea No Evil" Art Auction for Sea Shepherd with Shepard Fairey and Captain Watson
More than 100 artists have donated art to benefit the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's efforts at the fifth annual Sea No Evil Art Show featuring works by Gary Baseman Jeff Soto,, famed street artist and poster designer Shepard
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You Don't Stand By Watching Whales Getting Killed & Just Hang Banners, Take Pictures: Paul Watson
The new season of Whale Wars has just started on Animal Planet (new episode this Friday...), so what better time to highlight a quick video interview Andy Revkin from Dot Earth just did with Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson. While Watson hits many of
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"Sweet Avenger" on Animal Planet Celebrates Vegan Baker-Superhero
Any vegan who has been to or lives in NYC or Pennsylvania or anywhere else within Danielle Konya's distribution area probably knows her work: Vegan Treats baked goods. The (amazing) peanut butter bomb is probably
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Sea Shepherd Forces Japanese Whalers to Halt Hunting for Season
Last year Sea Shepherd's harassment of the Japanese whaling fleet halved the number of whales killed. Now it's come out that the whaling fleet has halted whaling in the Southern Ocean, citing Sea Shepherd's constant hounding of them, blocking supplies
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TEEB Little Things by Lawrence Chen (Video)
This morning on the Spanish blog Resseny I came across this simple yet beautiful video called "Little Things" by Lawrence Chen. I like the way it gets the message across gracefully, using little resources to make the movie. It is poetic and makes you
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Sea Shepherd Prevents Japanese Whalers From Receiving Supplies, Refueling
An update from the Southern Ocean and the activities of Sea Shepherd in harassing the Japanese whaling fleet: According to the latest reports Sea Shepherd's scout ship Gojira has intercepted a Panamanian-registered ship, the Sun
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Take That, Apple! Mozilla Adopts Baby Firefoxes
Marketing loves wildlife. Consider products like Apple's Safari browser, and the Snow Leopard operating system. There was a call last year for Apple to help save real-life snow leopards. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox
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British Angler Catches an Elusive Giant Piranha
British fisherman Jeremy Wade, host of Animal Planet's River Monsters, made quite a rare catch on a remote stretch of the River Congo. As one might expect from looking at this prehistoric-seeming goliath tigerfish, measuring
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Paul Watson Says He Never Ordered Scuttling the Ady Gil - Bethune's Just Angry Over Being Kicked Out
The Whale Wars war of words continues: Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has issued a long statement countering allegations made by former Sea Shepherd Captain Pete Bethune earlier in the week, wherein Bethune says Watson ordered the sinking of the Ady
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Pete Bethune Says Sea Shepherd Deliberately Sunk Its Own Ship to 'Garner Sympathy'
It's been a couple months since Captain Pete Bethune (then of Sea Shepherd) was given a suspended sentence by Japanese authorities for boarding the Japanese whaler which ran down the Ady Gil and attempting to deliver their captain a bill for the sunken
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Big Cats and Dolphins win Humane Society Media Awards
Every year the Humane Society toasts Hollywood for good deeds at the Genesis Awards, a fundraiser that recognizes ethical
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7 Creepy, Crawly, Endangered Reptiles With Weird Genetic Traits
If snakes, lizards, skinks, and reptiles in general give you the creeps, then we've got seven reasons to give them another chance: From tiny turtles to massive dragons, these endangered reptiles
