ANIMAL FORUM

Anti-whaling activists detained on Japanese ship

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/15/conservation.whaling/print

Two members of the radical anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd are
reportedly being held against their will on a Japanese whaling ship in
Antarctic waters.

In a vessel called Steve Irwin, members of the group had been pursuing
Japans annual whaling hunt in the Antarctic for almost a month.

After locating five Japanese whaling boats this morning, two of its
activists