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Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers

Posted by samzenpus on from the watching-the-yushin dept.

FatLittleMonkey writes "Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd is using aerial drones to find and track factory ships used by Japanese whalers. The group claims the tactic shortened the Japanese whaling season last year by a month, saving 200 whales, and this year they've spotted the factory ship even earlier."

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  1. Re:So people really have this much time and money? by Discopete · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Paul Watson was asked to leave Greenpeace because when GP was attempting to get charitable status with the US IRS, the IRS told them "No property damage". Later that week, Watson disarmed a harp seal hunter who was clubbing a seal to death and tossed the club into the ocean. That is considered property damage and the board asked him to resign.

    A few years later, one of the other founders of GP decided that they had become too soft, left and joined Sea Shepherd.

    I believe everyone on board SS's ships are vegetarian, if not Vegan.