Sea Shepherd v Japanese whalers, Round Two to begin soon

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Sea Shepherd Campaign Appeal: Operation Musashi

Message from Captain Watson (onboard the Steve Irwin in port in Hobart)

Its time for Round Two in the battle to save the endangered whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary. After a month and a half of chasing the Japanese whaling fleet, we have been forced to return to refuel.

But we need to return South again as soon as possible. Every day we are away, whales die. The whale slaughter lasts for four months and to stop the killing we need the fuel, provisions, and maintenance to keep our ship at sea so that we can keep intervening against their illegal whaling activities.

And to do that we need to refuel and reprovision three times during this campaign.

The good news this year is that fuel and oil costs are down. In fact, it is going to cost us US$90,000 less this year, than last, to fill up our fuel tanks with 200 tons of diesel.

The bad news is that it is still expensive and with the economic downturn internationally, it is more difficult to raise donations. Globally, all nonprofits are suffering.

And thus we need to appeal once again for the funds to enable us to return to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to resume our interventions against illegal Japanese whaling activities.

This promises to be the most successful intervention year yet. Last year was amazingly successful with the whalers getting just half their quota and losing US$70 million profits. This year we hit them a month earlier and they have one of their three harpoon boats knocked out of the hunt. We shut them down for three solid weeks and when we return we intend to add another four weeks to their downtime.

We can defeat this multi-million dollar illegal slaughter of the whales by speaking the language they understand profit and losses. For every whale the Japanese kill they make about US$200,000. By continuing to keep their losses greater than their profits we can knock them out economically.

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