Nottinghamshire Ocean Defence Newswire Archive

As part of the regualar Cinema Pacifico film series at Nottingham Uni, this Friday we will hosting a speaker from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, one of the most interesting and active ecology and animal welfare groups around.

An animal rights campaigner from Nottingham charged with breaching a seal exclusion zone in Canada was acquitted on Friday. Mark Glover, who is a member of the Carlton-based group Respect for Animals, was one of five activists arrested while filming the annual Canadian seal hunt and accused of violating a condition of their observation licenses which required that they remain at least 10m from sealing activity.

Nottingham Animal Right's charity Gig to raise funds for the sea shepherd is just two weeks away.

The more people who come the better a chance we haveof future gigs at the venue, so come - it will be fun : )

Nottingham Animal Rights presents its first fundraiser gig.

In aid of everyones favorite Pirates the Sea Shepherd.

the gig starts at 7pm on the 21st May at Junction 7 (canning circus) and will feature 5 good Nottingham bands.

Verbal Warning
www.myspace.com/verbalwarningpunk

Rebel Soul Collective
www.myspace.com/rebelrebelrebel

Synat
www.myspace.com/synatmusic

Manichae
www.myspace.com/manichae

Martin the Livewire
www.myspace.com/martinthelivewire

A Nottingham resident who joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as part of their crew on the vessel Steve Irwin has returned home. Dan, who has volunteered with Sea Shepherd previously, rejoined in the middle of this year's anti-whaling mission against the continued Japanese whale hunting activities in the Southern Ocean. Named Operation Migaloo, after the only known albino humpback in the world, this was Sea Shepherd's fourth expedition to the remote southern waters off the coast of Antarctica and has been typically eventful.

In January, two Sea Shepherd volunteers were taken hostage by Japanese whalers. Then in March, several of the crew were injured when the Japanese military threw grenades onto the ship and opened fire on them. The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin covered a total of 20,090 nautical miles (37,205 kilometers) during Opertaion Migaloo and made 3 return trips from Melbourne, Australia to the coast of Antarctica in 3½ months. In total, the ship was at sea for 83 days between December 5, 2007 and March 15, 2008. It is estimated that due to continued harrasment by the Sea Shepherd, the Japanese have not managed to get even half their whale quota this hunting season.

Dan is an activist from Nottingham who has joined the crew on board the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin in a bid to stop the illegal whaling activities of the Japanese near Antartica. The mission, named Migaloo, started last December and after refuelling in Melbourne last month, the Sea Shepherd crew is back in the oceans, have managed to track down the whaling fleet and have been in hot persuit of its main vessel, the Yushin Maru No. 2 for the last week. Accoring to one of the crew onboard the ship "the weather is getting colder and we are getting many hours of darkness now. The Antarctic winter is creeping up on us. The seas are getting rougher and we are getting blizzards." We joined Dan via sattelite phone to ask him about his adventures..