Mission Statement:

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Mission Statement Sea Shepherd's mission is to
conserve and protect the world's marine
wilderness eco-systems and marine wildlife
species.
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Carrying out the mission...

• Sea Shepherd acts through
• public education
• investigation
• documentation
• enforcement
• (under authority of the
• United Nations World Charter for Nature)
• Sea Shepherd adheres to the utilization
• of non-violent principles and has taken a
• standard against violence in the
• protection of the oceans.

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Sea Shepherd Campaigns...

• Priority campaign for the year

Objective is to hunt down the Japanese whaling
fleet and harass, block, obstruct, and intervene
against their illegal whaling operations.
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Sea Shepherd Campaigns...

• Galapagos Islands

The commercial fishing ban(1997), is regularly
violated by the huge Ecuadorian fishing fleet,
foreign vessels, and independent operators.
A series of coastal "no take" zones were
established for the Marine Reserve this year, and
must be enforced.
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Sea Shepherd Campaigns...

• Seal Campaign
• The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the largest
  mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world-
  (over 320,000 seals killed in March and April!)
• What we need to do now is to promote
• the international boycott of Canadian
• seafood products.
• The slaughter of seals is incredibly cruel
• (a post mortem survey has shown that 42
• of these babies are skinned alive)
• It is a threat to the survival of the species
• It is a threat to the survival of cod
• It is a slaughter done mainly for unessential,
  vanity, and luxury items, and therefore, is
  unnecessary
• It is unethical to slaughter newborn seal pups
  (About 95 of the seals to be slaughtered are
  babies less than four weeks old)

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Sea Shepherds Success...

• The success of the seal campaign and the ramming
  of the Sierra was the start of Sea Shepherd's
  historical 160 voyages over the next 2 decades,
  enforcing international laws where no law
  enforcement existed - on the high seas.
• Sea Shepherd continues to accomplish its mission
  by upholding and enforcing international
  treaties, laws and conventions of world
  governments.