Before the fleet departs…
Things are changing quickly this whaling season…
The Japanese Government has decided not to send coastguard officers to protect the Japanese whaling vessels. It has also been reported, although still unconfirmed, that Japan has lowered its whaling target this season by 20% to 750. Meanwhile the Australian government is not going to send a surveillance vessel this year and is going to spend $6 million on a whale research program that will refute Japan’s claims that whales need to be killed in order to research them.
Humpback whales will not be targeted but that is still a lot of whales that will die a painful and needless death in the name of science.
Do you think that the anti-whaling protests are working? Or is this one of the few upsides of the global economic downturn?
Whatever the reasons it’s time to keep the pressure on, we need your photos. If you are catching up with friends or going to an event take your camera and get your friends to be a part of Project 551.