Greenpeace - whale appreciation society(Dual Language)

Japanese government accused Greenpeace activities as "dangerous".

Although Greenpeace protests as Nisshin Maru drove them between two ships, British BBC reporter, who was with Greenpeace at that time, write on his blog
"The Greenpeace boat managed to hold a position in between the two ships for a few minutes - before, under pressure from water hoses and blaring horns, it was edged out and the two ships came together.
After lunch the inflatables returned to take some pictures of themselves holding banners in front of the two ships."

"This seemed to upset the Japanese catcher boats and they raced after the inflatables in ever tighter circles. For a mad half-hour, everyone seemed to lose their senses.

Then a shape appeared on the horizon and - like naughty children caught messing around - everyone started behaving themselves. The Japanese captain issued a warning to the Esperanza to keep its distance and the inflatables came to a halt.

When it arrived the Oceanic Viking deployed its own small boats into the water - and without a word to the passing activists proceeded towards the Japanese fleet.

In fact no-one seems keen to want to talk to the Greenpeace ship. A long policy statement read out to the Oceanic Viking over the radio was met with a rather tired "can you put it in an email"."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7171409.stm

【WHALE】
The cows of the sea

Though they possess social skills that humans associate with intelligence, whales are no smarter than your average pet, according to many experts.
Tony Martin, head of the marine mammal section of the British Antarctic Survey, describes blue whales as "the cows of the sea". He said: "They graze as they go along so they don't have to outwit their prey, just like a cow doesn't outwit the grass."
What's more, although whales communicate, they do not speak: "They have contact calls, but that's not language," said Martin. "We've never been able to observe anything like Mum saying to Dad, 'Have you seen Johnny recently?' " Predatory toothed whales, which include killer whales and dolphins, are certainly considered more intelligent than plankton-grazing species such as the blue whale, but no more so than other animals.
"Humans are in awe of whales and they are incredible in so many ways, but in terms of intelligence, it is hard to say they are special," said Martin. "I wouldn't rate them any higher than a pet cat."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3216874.ece

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• Japan

[japaneseshepherd]

Are you OZ?

Mind your own business. Stop killing dugongs in your OWN country. Talking about the past, your country killed so many native people, human, in your OWN country. Shame on you.

[shepherd2929]

seashepherd hope to refuel and return straight away to force the fleet from antartic.unlike greenpeace seashepherd puts 97% of all money donated into fueling and maintaining its ships.please help so they can stop the hunt this year.theres two more months of killing that needs to be stopped

[shepherd2929]

australians dont blow the spines out of dingos then drag then round for 45mins then electricute them to death.and they dont hunt endangered species either.SHAME ON U

[MeIsSully]

The Japanese Whalers are breaking international law, and can expect many more new forms of disruption this winter in the Southern Ocean.

[Darkstorms15]

not all japanese support whaling.

[Darkstorms15]

thank you for saying that :) i knew there were plenty of japanese sea shepherd supporters. also dont think we dont feel bad about the native americans being killed. we feel bad about that enough. im of the saami people who were also nearly whiped out.

PS we also are very sorry for hiroshima.

Greetings from america.

[Darkstorms15]

ok there re 6,000,000,000 people. kill 10,000,000 anually and that wont cause people to go extinct. see what i did there, it not just about extinction its about NOT

KILLING

[DickStainy]

Stop killing the whales, stupid-ass Japs!

[megumegu1229]

犯罪組織であるグリーンピースに何をいっても

犯罪者としての自覚しかないから

分からないんですよね。挑発して騒ぎになれば

なるほど自分達の首を絞めるだけなのに・・。

[mdeceiver79]

Burn the Whale!

Green Peace are pirates and terrorists!

[chinese5angel]

IWC homepage for whales population estimates. --MINKE WHALES-- 761,000 in Southern Hemisphere 174,000 in North Atlantic 10,800 in West Greenland 25,000 in NorthWest Pacific and Okhotsk Sea --PILOT WHALES-- 780,000 in Central & Eastern North Atlantic Capture of 1000 of those whales annually does not matter in terms of extinction. So, let people eat whales if they want to eat whales. and leave people not eat whales if they dont want to eat whales.