Sea Shepherd E-News Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:05:08 -0400 (EDT)
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May 15, 2007
Dear Roger,
Earlier this year, you helped us to successfully stop barbaric Japanese killers in the southernmost parts of the world from killing beautiful, defenseless whales during Operation Leviathan: Defending the Whales of Antarctica. Without your help, our volunteer crews could not have taken two ships and a helicopter into harm's way to tackle one of the greatest whale killing monsters on this planet.
 
Because of the amazing support we have recieved from you and our supporters around world, Sea Shepherd is pleased to announce that we will be taking on yet another of the great whale killing monsters on this planet - the rogue whaling nation of Iceland - in our next campaign, Operation Ragnarök: Iceland Whale Defense Campaign.
 
While launching this campaign, we are continuing to work around the world to protect animals in every ocean from greed and brutality. In this issue of the Sea Shepherd E-News you will read about the initial preparations for our upcoming campaign in Iceland as well as our work to bring new voices to the policy-making groups that create the conservation laws that Sea Shepherd enforces.
 
 
Operation Ragnarök: Iceland Whale Defense Campaign
Sea Shepherd Heads North to Protect Whales
 
Op Rok LogoIn October 2006, after 20 years of compliance, Iceland began to violate the International Whaling Commission's global moratorium on whaling and gave only a one-day notice before killing a whale. In order to defend the beautiful whales that Iceland is targeting, Sea Shepherd crews are heading north towards Iceland with our vessel, the Farley Mowat, with the mission of stopping Iceland's brutal whaling fleet.
 
We are calling this campaign Operation Ragnarök. This is an old Nordic word that means "doom or destruction of the powers." We intend to take our intervention to the land of the Norse - straight to the coast of Iceland - for a confrontation with the outlaw Icelandic whaling operations.
 
Iceland has issued themselves a quota of 9 endangered fin whales and 30 piked (Minke) whales to brutally slaughter before August 31, 2007 - in addition to their bogus lethal "scientific research" program which targets another 39 piked whales.
 
 
Ecuador Joins the International Whaling Commission

A New Voice Joins the Policy-Making Group 

Robert Hunter Chasing Nisshin MaruReliable sources have confirmed to Sea Shepherd Galapagos Director of Operations Sean O'Hearn-Gimenez that Ecuador will be joining the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and will be attending their annual meetings held during May this year in Anchorage, Alaska, thereby demonstrating that the government of the President of the Republic of Ecuador, Economist Rafael Correa (pictured above with Lenyn Betamcourt, Sea Shepherd's Manager of Research & Education in the Galapagos Islands), is serious about the conservation of the world's environment.

Sea Shepherd has supported conservation efforts in the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador, since the year 2000 and has been advising the current administration, (through its allied Ecuadorian grassroots organization, Fundación Selva-Vida Sin Fronteras), of the need for Ecuador to join as member of the IWC and to send its delegate to the 59th International meeting of this intergovernmental organization. The IWC is responsible for whaling regulations on a global scale, and to date, consists of 70 different nations, including Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Chile.

 
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From Antarctica to Central America and the North Atlantic, Sea Shepherd volunteers are working to end the exploitation of our seas and the creatures that live there. As always, I am happy to bring the news of our accomplishments to those who make it possible - our loyal supporters.
 
Thank-you for continuing to support us and for keeping us on the front lines in the international battle to protect life in our oceans.
 
 
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