Airline’s Puppy Deaths Spark Debate about Commercial Breeders As animal lovers become more aware that purchasing a dog from a pet store supports the inhumane practices of puppy mills, commercial breeders are using online sources to get their dogs directly into homes across the country. On August 3, seven puppies died of suspected heat-related complications [...]

Taken From Sea Shepherd web site……. Sea Shepherd Featured in MUTTS Comic Strip Sea Shepherd is honored to have been referenced in last week’s MUTTS comic strip, an award-winning and highly celebrated comic strip which appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries worldwide. Sea Shepherd applauds and sends a special thank you to MUTTS [...]

Organic Food: Healthier for You and the Planet Though known colloquially as food that is grown to be more healthy (and is more expensive), in order for organic food to be certified as such, it must be produced under specific, legally-regulated standards and be subject to testing in order to retain certification. In agriculture, this [...]

By 2050, a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. Join National Geographic in exploring the local stories and global trends that define the world’s water crisis. Learn about freshwater resources and how they are used to feed, power, and sustain all life. See how the forces of [...]

Greens want World Heritage status for Antarctica Posted Mon Aug 9, 2010 6:00am AEST The Greens are renewing their push for Antarctica to be given World Heritage protection. (Australian Antarctic Division) The Greens will today renew the push for Antarctica to be given World Heritage protection. Greens leader Bob Brown says Labor went to the [...]

Pete Bethune reported today on Facebook that he had finished writing his book so everyone can look forward to it being published shortly.

A whale hunted Sunday morning was landed and slaughtered during a whale festival in the Ayukawa district of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, one of Japan’s major coastal whaling bases. The slaughter was performed before an audience of tourists as the roughly 10-meter-long, 10-ton Baird’s beaked whale was caught off Fukushima Prefecture and [...]

Svetlana Kalmikoff from Facebook: The Green Party and Fianna Fail form a coalition government that nearly collapsed earlier this month. The phase out of fur farming was one of the conditions agreed to by Fianna Fail to keep the Green Party in the coalition. The phase out follows years of campaigning by Respect for Animals [...]

Oil Spill Assaults Kahnawakes Shoreline – With the horrific disaster in the Gulf it is easy to forget that oil spills are occurring practically every day somewhere in the worlds oceans. Most of these spills go unreported and unpunished. The frequency of the spills themselves have made oil spills pretty much routine until something like [...]

SEA SHEPHERD NEWS Galapagos Islands No Longer on UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger – At the annual meeting of the UNESCO committee for World Heritage Sites, which was held this year in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, it was decided that Ecuador has improved the situation in the Galapagos Islands to such an [...]