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Sea Shepherd and Whale Wars

Posted on June 3, 2010February 16, 2011 By Andrew Thaler 19 Comments on Sea Shepherd and Whale Wars
Conservation, Popular Culture

We have been and continue to be critical of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Although their goals are admirable their methods are not only ineffective, but in some cases impair the achievement of those goals.  With the premier of Whale Wars season 3 tomorrow evening, we’d like to take a moment to highlight the issues we’ve raised concerning the SSCS. Over the last two years we’ve written a number of post summarizing our problems with Sea Shepherd:

  • Sea Shepherd – Friend or foe of shark conservation
  • Guestpost: In defense of Sea Shepherd by Craig Nazor
  • Sea Shepherd FAIL
  • What a good conservation organization looks like

Our friends at Deep Sea News and Underwater Thrills have been critical of SSCS, too:

  • Deep Sea News – Sea Shepherd
  • Underwater Thrills – Sea Shepherd

The above links cover many of the issues we have with this organization. The New York Times recently published an excellent breakdown of the Japanese Whaling Industry. Below are our main criticisms of SSCS:

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