Sea Shepherd is an internationatl non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Their mission is to end for example the whaling industry and other thing which harm the ecosystem and species. Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society was formally incorporated in the United Sates in 1981 in the state of Oregon. Previous, to this the idea of Sea Shepherd was formed when Captain Paul Watson founded the Earth Force Society in 1977. A TV show telling about the work of Sea Shepherd was first showed in 2008. It was named Whale Wars. It has been going in many channels like Discovery Channel. The show was a big success. Today the fleet includes 4 vessels which are:
-M/Y Stewe Irwin
-M/Y Ady Gil (In the picture/Japanese whaling ship crashed with Ady Gil which sank)
-R/V Farley Mowat
-Sirean/Yoshka (The former U.S patrol boat)
There has been lots of discussion about who is right and wrong in this "war". Japanese whale "research" boats say that they are just taking info from whales, Sea Shepherd thinks that they are just selling whale meat! They say that they are going to stop the whaling industry. It will bee interesting to see how?!... More info about Sea Shepherd can be found in Wikipedia and their own website.
