>Subject: Attn: J Orlin Grabbe > >November: Iceland ignores Sea Shepherd's warning to comply with the IWC >ban on commercial whaling. Sea Shepherd agents sink half of Iceland's >whaling fleet in Reykjavik harbor and destroy their whale processing station. > >1988 March: A Sea Shepherd agent documents the killing of dolphins by a >U.S. tuna seiner. The footage scandalizes the nation, embarrasses the tuna >industry, and leads to the creation of the "dolphin-safe" tuna label law. > >1989 June: The Sea Shepherd II intercepts two Venezuelan tuna seiners off >the coast of Costa Rica, documents evidence of kills exceeding a thousand >dolphins, disrupts Mexican tuna seiner operations in the Eastern Pacific. > >1990 August: The Sea Shepherd II encounters two Japanese drift net vessels >in the eastern Pacific, cuts and confiscates thirty miles of drift net. > >1991 July: Sea Shepherd goes to Trinidad to protest Caribbean driftnetting >by the Taiwanese. Sea Shepherd is made an official auxiliary to the >Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard. > >December 20th, 1991: The United Nation General Assembly approves >Resolution 46/215 which bans drift net fishing worldwide as of January 1993. > >1992 March: SSCS establishes the Oceanic Research and Conservation Action >Force, or O.R.C.A.FORCE, to coordinate all data gathering and crew actions >of Sea Shepherd. Lisa Distefano is appointed Director. > >May: O.R.C.A.FORCE agent scuttles the illegal driftnet vessel Jiang Hai in >the harbor at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. >One-click activism: >Send this report & your comments to the Costa Rican Ambassador: >http://eactivist.actionize.org/actnow.php?1338 > >October 31st, 2001 > >Cocos Island Emergency >A report from Nicola Ghersinich and Mario Arroyo > >Every year, 1,250 visitors come to scuba dive Cocos Island, off Costa >Rica, attracted by its extraordinary biodiversity of this World Heritage Site. > >Today, Cocos Island can no longer be considered a marine reserve. It is >now a fishing base. What had been considered a sanctuary for threatened >marine species is now just an extended community for fishermen to exploit. > >We are confronting a crisis. >(cont at http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/cocos/pr110601.html
