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Yorkshire Wildlife Park will soon welcome four mature brown bears from Japan as part of an international rehoming project. The bears are currently being kept at the Ainu Culture Museum on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s islands. However, concerns were raised about the conditions the bears were living in at the museum so a decision … Read more
After five weeks of patrolling the Southern Ocean, Sea Shepherd has located Japanese whale poachers’ factory whaling vessel, Nisshin Maru, in the Australian Whale Sanctuary with a dead minke whale on its flensing deck, the first to be documented since the International Court of Justice ruled against their whaling operations in the Antarctic in 2014. The vessel … Read more
In December, Sea Shepherd’s patrol vessel, the Ocean Warrior, intercepted one of the harpoon ships of the Japanese whale-poaching fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. “The crews of the Ocean Warrior and the MV Steve Irwin have been battling through thick fog and ice to protect the whales in the Australian whale sanctuary,” said … Read more
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