Sea Shepherd Australia says will continue South Ocean action
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sea Shepherd Australia said Thursday that a legal settlement involving the conservation group’s U.S. founder will not affect its anti-whaling campaign in the Southern Ocean.
Spokesman Adam Burling said the Australian arm of the group has been deliberately independent from the U.S. organization since the court case began several years ago.
This week, Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research and a whale ship operator announced they’d reached an agreement with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the U.S. and its founder Paul Watson.
The group was made famous by the television show “Whale Wars.” Typically each Southern Hemisphere summer, Sea Shepherd sends out boats to try and stop Japan’s whaling fleet from catching whales in the Southern Ocean.