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Save the Whales is a documentary that shows some of the action that Sea Shepherd does to defend Whales from the Japanese 'research' hunter-killer harpoon ships. Killing Whales is murder. Help to defend   more...Whales from their enemy by supporting Sea Shepherd's activities via:

www.seashepherd.org Visit NOW! the Whales need your help, help Sea Shepherd do more now!  less

A German woman explains her (crazy?) idea to save whales. This new Greenpeace video where all the people are invited to send his action ideas for the next anti-whaling expedition.
They need your help to   more...create an amazing campaign that accomplishes the unexpected – and triggers a positive and productive public debate both in Japan and all over the world. It’s especially important to win the campaign in Japan, where most people are against whaling in Antarctica
http://whales.greenpeace.org/ar  less

A French guy tells us his action idea against whale hunting. It is a video of the new campaign of Greenpeace “Defend the whales” The six-ship whaling fleet has left Japan, and is headed directly to the   more...Southern Ocean. 945 whales will be killed - unless we do something to save them. It's time to put an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Greenpeace invites all to take part of his new campaign to save to the whales and design the next expedition.
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Blood on my Boots is a storyboard sample of a politico-environmental protest music video clip, produced by Tony Fields and music written and sung by Stewart Guthrie ~ this clip is about the inhumane slaughter   more...of whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary in Australian Territorial waters ~ this clip is very graphic and i advise if any children watch it they should be accompanied by a parent~~  less

Hollyscoop.com hit the Whaleman Foundation benefit in Los Angeles where Heroes star Hayden Panettiere was hosting. The foundation is committed to minimizing the threats facing whales, dolphins and the   more...ocean habitat, including toxic pollution, over-fishing and global warming. The event took place at Eva Longorias restaurant Beso which brought her out as well. Other stars we interviewed included Milo Ventimiglia, Isabel Lucas,Donald Faison,Ken Paves and more. Hayden talked about her arrest warrant from Japan along with how you can go green and help save the world.  less

Some species of large whales are endangered as a result of commercial whaling from the eleventh century to the twentieth. For centuries large whales have been hunted for oil, meat, baleen and ambergris   more...(a perfume ingredient from the intestine of sperm whales). By the middle of the 20th century, whaling left many populations severely depleted.

Cetaceans are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life. Their body is fusiform (spindle-shaped). The forelimbs are modified into flippers. The tiny hindlimbs are vestigial; they do not attach to the backbone and are hidden within the body. The tail has horizontal flukes. Cetaceans are nearly hairless, and are insulated by a thick layer of blubber. As a group, they are noted for their high intelligence.

The order Cetacea contains ninety species, all marine except for four species of freshwater dolphins. The order is divided into two suborders, Mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti (toothed whales, which includes dolphins and porpoises). The species range in size from the Commerson's Dolphin and Tucuxi to the Blue Whale, the world's largest ever animal.

The International Whaling Commission introduced a six year moratorium on all commercial whaling in 1986, which has been extended to the present day. For various reasons some exceptions to this moratorium exist; current whaling nations are Norway, Iceland and Japan and the aboriginal communities of Siberia, Alaska and northern Canada.
Several species of small whales are caught as bycatch in fisheries for other species. In the tuna fishery in the Eastern Tropical Pacific thousands of dolphins were drowned in purse-seine nets, until measures to prevent this were introduced. Fishing gear and deployment modifications, and eco-labelling (dolphin-safe or dolphin-friendly brands of canned tuna), have contributed to a reduction in the mortality of dolphins by tuna fishing vessels in recent years. In many countries, small whales are still hunted for food, oil, meat or bait.

Whaling in Norway is a centuries long tradition in Northern Norway. Only Minke whaling is permitted, from a population of 107,000 animals in the North East Atlantic and is argued by proponents and government officials to be sustainable. Still it has been frequently criticized by foreigners and animal rights groups as Norway, among Iceland and Japan, is one of few countries that still allow whaling.

Norway registered an objection to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) commercial whaling moratorium, and is thus not bound by it. In 1993, Norway resumed a commercial catch, following a period of five years where a small catch was made under scientific permit. Norwegian Minke whale catches have fluctuated between 218 animals in 1995 and 646 in 2003.

Prior to the moratorium, Norway caught around 2,000 Minke whales per year. The North Atlantic hunt is divided into five areas and usually lasts from early May to late August. Norway has exported a limited amount of whale meat to the Faroes and Iceland. It has been attempting to export to Japan for several years, though this has been hampered by concerns in the Japanese domestic market about the effects of pollution in the blubber of the North Atlantic Minke whale.

In May 2004, the Norwegian Parliament passed a resolution to considerably increase the number of Minkes hunted each year. The Ministry of Fisheries also initiated a satellite tracking programme of various whale species to monitor migration patterns and diving behaviour. The tagging research program has been under way since 1999.

Since 2006, when the Norwegian whaling quota was increased by 30%, Norwegian whalers have been allowed to hunt a quota of 1,052 Minke whales a year. Since the 1993 hunt resumption the Norwegian quota has rarely been fully met  less

Two Whales

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Whales

ONE OF MY MURALS

This anti-whaling protest clip is produced by Whale Call Inc. Directed by Tony Fields and Boris Branwhite, edited by Jesse Fields, and music written and performed by denebulae (holland). Footage courtesy   more...of Greenpeace Australia ~ it shows the courage and commitment by the greenpeace crew to protect the whales~  less

Hipo explain us the new Greenpeace anti-whaling campaign and invites all to design the next expedition. The six-ship whaling fleet has left Japan, and is headed directly to the Southern Ocean. 945 whales   more...will be killed unless we do something to save them. It's time to put an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean. 945 whales need the power of your ideas.
http://whales.greenpeace.org/global  less

READ THIS FIRST!!

For some reason the audio is crapping out. Its not as bad in high quality.

This was an interesting video to make. I used audio from the movie Dot and the Whale, since the music is not   more...available on CD. So there is some voice over and sound effects, but they work pretty well. Dot and the Whale is about a little girl named Dot, who finds a beached whale. Dot can speak to animals and the whale tells her she wants to die. She watched her family get slaughtered and she doesn't want to live. This is a kid's movie BTW. So the voice you hear is Tonga's, the whale. The first song is Mother Sea. Then the song ends, and you go into another song/video, "Why Don't They Leave Us Alone?". This is also from the movie. Dot meets the fabled Moby Dick, who is still alive, but very old. He tells her to let Tonga die if she wants to, and the song starts playing soon after. Then there is a end titles repeat of Mother Sea, again.

I didn't feel like splitting it up into 3 separate videos. But I think it works well like this.  less

a critical look at whaling - not for the squeemish

The grenade harpoons in use today haven't been around for such a long time. In the old days, whalers used harpoons with black-powder grenades, but these   more...unreliable devices weren't well-suited to catching the relatively small minke whale. Starting in the 1920s, Norwegian whalers abandoned the black powder in favor of a harpoon with an empty grenade casing—called a "cold grenade harpoon." Later, they replaced the empty grenade with a simple iron head—the "cold harpoon." The use of non-explosive (cold) weapons tended to prolong the whale's agony, and hunters would have to resort to other, more cumbersome methods to complete the kill.

In the 1980s, the Norwegians developed a new kind of grenade harpoon using a more dependable explosive called penthrite. The cold harpoons were banned, and penthrite grenades became the standard method for killing whales. Minke whalers in Greenland switched over from cold harpoons to penthrite grenades around 1990. The nations that have "scientific whaling" programs—Iceland and Japan—also support the use of explosive grenade harpoons. (Some Japanese whalers still use hand-held harpoons rather than the mounted cannon.)

Whale hunts in other parts of the world make use of more traditional methods. Faroe Islanders continue to hunt pilot whales by surrounding them with boats and driving them toward land. Some of the whales beach themselves, while others get stranded in shallow water. The whalers then use a metal hook to drag the animal onto the shore, where they slice through its spinal cord and main artery, one hand's width behind the blowhole. (In recent years they've switched over from pointed hooks to dull ones, which can be inserted into the vestibular air sacs without causing much tissue damage.) Traditional whalers in the United States use hand-held harpoons to ensnare whales, and then kill them with high-powered rifles. They have also used penthrite bombs and black powder.  less

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