whales Archive

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  Southern Ocean whaling, send in the navy! - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  I’ve been calling on the Government to send an offshore patrol vessel for a while now to monitor the whale hunt, to ensure the safety of all vessels down there and to ‘bear witness’ to this environmental crime but the Government has consistently refused to act. read more
  January 16, 2012 3:17 pm - 19 Comments
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  Outsourcing our opposition to whaling - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  It’s fantastic the now finished Japanese whaling season was a dismal failure, but in typical right-wing fashion our Government has outsourced doing something about stopping whaling to the activists and Australians. As whaling season 2010/11 finishes I’m hopeful we’re making progress towards the end of whaling altogether. Pity the whalers. This has been a terrible [...] read more
  February 19, 2011 9:15 am - 36 Comments
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  Making origami whales to save the whales - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  Yesterday I launched a nationwide sister cities whale tour in Wellington for ordinary people to do something about whaling, rather than leaving it up to the activists and international lawyers. We set up a stall where passers-by could sign a letter to Wellington’s sister city, Sakai, and then fold it in to an origami whale. [...] read more
  January 12, 2011 4:12 pm - 4 Comments
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  Where the people lead, the leaders will follow: Encouragement for anti-whaling movement - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  It has been a positive day for the anti-whaling movement in NZ. It has become apparent that the Government is responding to immense public outrage to recent changes to whaling policy. At the beginning of 2010, John Key began talking about new diplomatic initiatives which was the so-called compromise deal Sir Geoffrey Palmer was working [...] read more
  April 23, 2010 4:57 pm - 66 Comments
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  Drowning out the whale song - by frog

  
  
  
  I haven’t had a decent whale-hugging, drum-beating sort of post for a little while, and I’d hate to disabuse people of any stereotypes they might have built up.  So here’s the good news story of the man who invented a way to help whales by using West African drum music. It seems whales have been [...] read more
  September 17, 2008 4:57 pm - 2 Comments
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  Peaked oil - by frog

  
  
  
  I just came across this photoshopped picture by Flickr’s azrainman on peak oil: These two are good peak oil photoshop satires too. Meanwhile, this cartoon is also good from boodoo: This is a political cartoon from an 1861 issue of Vanity Fair.  Boodoo quotes American Theocracy: Mid-nineteenth-century Americans were a literate and reading people. Demand [...] read more
  April 8, 2008 4:16 pm - 24 Comments
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  Saving the whales - by frog

  
  
  
  Just before she received the 6000 person petition yesterday from anti whaling boatie, David Taylor, Metiria also received this email in support of the anti-whaling campaign. Hello, My name is Aniston I am 7 yrs old and I live in New Zealand. I LOVE all Whales and want to help protect tham. I arranqed a [...] read more
  March 5, 2008 9:08 am - 2 Comments
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  Norway’s plan to stop climate change - by frog

  
  
  
  A Norwegian pro-whaling group is pointing to a study showing that catching and eating whales has less impact on climate change than other commonly eaten meats. The survey, focused on whale boats’ fuel use, showed that a kg of whale meat represented just 1.9kg of greenhouse gases against 15.8 for beef, 6.4 for pork and [...] read more
  March 4, 2008 2:46 pm - 4 Comments
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  Crikey - by frog

  
  
  
  So, Steve Irwin is back in the news.  And for much the same sort of thing as the original Steve Irwin became famous for – charging into dangerous situations (teethy crocodile mouths, poisonous snakes, Japanese whaling ships in Antarctic waters) while drawling out helpful statements like ‘Crikey, watch this one get angry when I poke [...] read more
  January 16, 2008 9:49 am - 13 Comments