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MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2006

Whales' navy gains two ships

The global "navy" defending whales has added two ships--the Leviathan, recently acquired by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and the Stenela, the first dolphin-watching vessel based in Mozambique, funded by the German Society for Dolphin Conservation, Save Our Seas Foundation, and Deutsche Umwelthilfe.

While the Stenela will attempt to protect whales and dolphins by promoting appreciation of marine mammals in a new part of the world, the Leviathan will lead the Sea Shepherd intervention against Japanese "research" whaling within the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, designated by the International Whaling Commission in 1994 but not recognized by Japan.

"We will be bringing two ships, a helicopter, and about 60 volunteers," pledged Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson. Watson said that the Levithan appears to be as fast as the Nisshin Maru, the Japanese whaling factory ship, which repeatedly sped away from the former Sea Shepherd flagship Farley Mowat last winter in high seas skirmishes also involving two Greenpeace vessels.

The Institute of Cetacean Research, the Japanese whaling front, plans to kill up to 935 minke whales and 10 fin whales within sanctuary waters this coming winter.