Group defiant over US ban on tackling Japan whalers
- Published: 19 Dec 2012 at 03.46
- Online news: World
US conservation group Sea Shepherd vowed to fight a court order to stay at least 500 yards away from Japanese whaling ships, and to keep protecting whales "with our ships and our lives".
The environmental group Sea Shepherd's main ship, the Steve Irwin, is anchored at Sydney Harbour, Australia, on August 31, 2012. Sea Shepherd has vowed to fight a US court order to stay at least 500 yards away from Japanese whaling ships, and to keep protecting whales "with our ships and our lives."
The injunction was ordered by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in the latest step in a legal battle between the anti-whaling group and Japanese authorities over vessels in the Southern Ocean.
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