Withdrawal from IWC covers for decision to halt Antarctic whaling TOKYO––Handing whales a Christmas Day gift camouflaged as coal, Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga on December 25, 2018 confirmed months of speculation and decades of threats that Japan would withdraw from membership in the International Whaling Commission, which has maintained a global moratorium on […]
Who killed ivory trade investigator Esmond Martin, why?
Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya––Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a […]
From nuts to high tech: veggie food emerges as investment trend
Hedge funds bet that the foliage is where our next meals are coming from LAS VEGAS, LONDON––Food industry leaders placing investment bets on what they believe will be the next big trend in eating are putting more and more of the money on alternatives to animal products and byproducts. Three paths away from meat […]
SAEN asks USDA to close lab that paid near-record fine
Repeated Animal Welfare Act violations found in follow-up inspection EVERETT, Washington––Citing repeated and continuing alleged violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act by the Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories’ facility in Everett, Washington, Stop Animal Exploitation on June 19, 2017 asked USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service western regional director Robert Gibbens to terminate […]
Fish Feel––and even Donald Trump once said so
Concern for fish suffering rises worldwide SILVER SPRING, Maryland––Suddenly voices are rising on behalf of fish, including one of the most surprising of all. Yes, that was the voice of U.S. President Donald Trump, rarely known to express concern or compassion for anyone who doesn’t support him, discussing a People for the Ethical Treatment […]
“Ethnic cleansing” kills 57 Japanese snow monkeys
Eugenics in the monkey house CHIBA, Japan––The Takagoyama Nature Zoo in Chiba, capital of Chiba prefecture, Japan “has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an ‘invasive alien species,’” zoo officials admitted to Agence France Press, BBC News, Japan Times and other media on February 21, […]
Ric O’Barry rips SeaWorld & HSUS execs for grandstanding on Taiji
Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project is there, again; SeaWorld & HSUS have never been there TAIJI, Japan; TAMPA, Florida––Keeping the infamous dolphin-killing cove at Taiji, Japan under around-the-clock surveillance for the fourteenth consecutive killing season, Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project might have welcomed substantive support from SeaWorld chief executive officer Joel Manby and Humane Society of […]
Whalers claim a victory, but Sea Shepherds get the refund
Aussie Sea Shepherds pledge to continue chasing the Japanese whaling fleet TOKYO, LOS ANGELES––The Institute of Cetacean Research, the front organization for the Japanese whaling industry, and Kyodo Senpaku, the company that owns and operates the Japanese whaling fleet, on August 23, 2016 globally publicized a claimed courtroom victory over the Sea Shepherd Conservation […]
Marine mammal activist Mark “The Bermanator” Berman, 63
Helped to lead campaigns against dolphin captivity & Taiji massacres, & for dolphin-safe tuna & freeing Keiko Mark Ira Berman, 63, the primary spokesperson for Earth Island Institute on marine mammal issues since 1991, died on May 13, 2016. E-mailed Mark J. Palmer, an Earth Island Institute colleague for more than 25 years, “Mark had chronic […]
Protester wins damages from Taiji Whale Museum
Court holds exclusion of Australian to be racial discrimination TOKYO, Japan––The Wakayama District Court, of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, on March 25, 2016 ordered the coastal whaling town of Taiji to pay Australia for Dolphins founder Sarah Lucas 110,000 yen ($907 U.S.) in damages for illegally barring her from the Taiji Whale Museum. While the […]