Since the old days, some species of whales have almost fully recovered. Some are still imperiled and some species will soon ...
In 1820, a large sperm whale attacked and sunk a ship — leaving its crew to survive at sea for three months In the Heart of ...
“In the Heart of the Sea” recounts the true story that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, focusing on the harrowing ...
Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting ...
president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore, mothership type ...
Founder of Sea Shepherd environmental group is accused by Tokyo of throwing a stink bomb onto a Japanese whaling ship in 2010 ...
On the contrary, the country even launched a brand-new whaling ship, the Kangei Maru, which will be able to process a vast quantity of whale meat. To defend this position, Japan argues that ...
“It has been five long months.” The arrest had been based on a warrant issued by Japan in 2012 that accused Mr. Watson of interfering with a whaling ship and causing injury to one of its crew ...