War at sea: Greenpeace fights to save dolphins from the nets

<snip> Campaigners say dolphins, who have to come up for air every six minutes or so, are dying in their hundreds, possibly thousands, each year, drowning entangled in the nets of these "pair" trawlers.

Their bodies are usually dumped back by the fishermen, their bellies slit to make them sink quickly. And by a combination of persuasion and harassment, the Greenpeace boats are trying to stop the fishing and save the dolphins. <snip>

The operation is dangerous. The Greenpeace volunteers, armed with bolt-cutters, try to reach the buoys and boats have to cope with the swell, keeping pace with the trawlers and the presence of a new factor: two other non-fishing trawlers, who have come to support their colleagues by bearing down in an intimidating fashion on the ribs. <snip>

This morning's skirmish is part of a battle that has been fought in an area 20 to 40 miles south of Plymouth, since the Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza, crewed by a multi-national team of Greenpeace employees and volunteers, arrived in mid-February. There has been increasing acrimony from the fishermen, who aim their boats at the inflatables, throw objects and fire flares at the protesters. Coastguards have warned both sides to back off, in case someone is seriously injured or killed. <snip>

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=623903

this, but you have to watch Greenpeace. Sometimes they get a little overboard crazy!

My son was stationed on the Nimitz, and Greenpeace (in their little boat compared to the AC Carrier) truied to force the Nimitz to go back to shore because they didn't want a neuclear powered carrier on the water.

All the sailors did was laugh a lot because we really were talking about an ant fighting an elephant, but they do some pretty dumb things sometimes.

This is probably good news. It's best to keep these publicity seeking clowns as distracted as possible of course, and I'm certainly not referring to either the fish, the fishermen or the dolphins.

If they're (the Greenpeace doublespeakers) are busy seeking headlines from the dolphins in their cute diesel powered boat, they aren't free to promote serious damage to the environment through their stupidity promotion campaigns.

http://www.greenpeace.org/news/details?item_id=771404

Good to see Greenpeace in the direct action forum again.

I have a lot of respect for Greenpeace. Yes they get a little crazy but there isn't anyone else defending the dolphins. It's not like what they do gets them rich. I believe what they do that they do from a sincere belief that it is right.

Sorry for butting in this thread but I feel this needs attention.
I am trying to find a discussion on this. I am too new to post this.
Does anyone know where a discusion about this is? If not could someone please post it?
This is an outrage!!! This must be stopped and never happen again!

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/17571222?sour...

Massive seal cull begins

By Paul Sims, Evening Standard
30 March 2005

Thousands of hunters armed with clubs, rifles and spears have begun the world's largest seal cull on the ice floes off eastern Canada.


Turning the ice red with blood, they killed hundreds of pups during the first day of the annual harp seal hunt.

The cull, which has been the target of protests since the 1960s, will mean the slaughter of up to 320,000 young seals on the floes and islands around Quebec's les de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St Lawrence.

"It's just horrific out there," said Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society of the United States. "There is blood all across the ice and seal carcasses as far as the eye can see. We've seen seals that were moving around and breathing, that have been left in these piles, some left conscious and crawling."

Animal rights campaigners, who claim the pups are often skinned alive, have begun a boycott of Canadian seafood products and are planning protests until the end of the cull on 15 May.

Despite an import ban imposed in the United States and the European Union, a growth in demand for seal pelts from eastern Europe and China led the Canadian government to issue a quota in 2003 that allows hunters to kill 975,000 seals over three years.

Canada says the seal population is "healthy and abundant" and three times the size it was in the Seventies.