Bethune's wife: Japanese will make an example of him

if the Somali's board a ship to take control it is called piracy

Minke is considered to be threated if not offical endangered. Japanese whalers kill Fin and Humpback too, both are very endangered. The IWC has 84 members now still happy with the moratorium. So to be fair there are 195 countries but 44 are landlocked, 65 have choosen not to join IWC, as the majority are poor countries more focused on substainable food.

Greg obviously did not learn anything about the colonialists history from his old school. Wake up. They are as bad as the Japs.

ridley, Minke whales aren't going extinct and at the rate they are being hunted they will never go extinct. And Clare "International protected meaning most people/countries cared for there protection...", sorry but your wrong. Firstly what the Japanese are doing isn't prohibited by the moratorium and secondly the moratorium was passed by the IWC with a vote of 25 for, 7 against and 5 abstentions. So 25 countries out of over 190 in the world voted for the moratorium, that hardly qualifies as most countries.

All nations should be backing Peter Bethune, not just NZ.

Don`t let the japs get away with this, who needs them!.

I`m from the old school and remember the horrific cruelty the japs administered to humans
during WW2.

Clare, I think Japan has a problem with whales being protected internationally when they don't actually need protection on conservation grounds. Japan isn't hunting Blue whales, for example, and the reason for that is presumably that they are indeed too rare for hunting to be considered.

The guy has got guts, He knew the likely out come. But how else can the little guys bring a country like Japan to account for their slaughter of internationally protected whales, not just minke but fin and humpback whales as well. International protected meaning most people/countries cared for there protection, but Japan thinks it's ok to just kill anything, regardless of there living value to other countries. Slaughtering under the guise of science. I wish him luck getting a just and fair trial. Shame on whaling, shame on Japan.

I hope they do make an example of him, i hope they imprison him and feed him only whale meat and japanese sausage

Antarctic minke whales aren't going extinct, the IWC reports that there are between 400,000 and 700,000 of them.

If Bethune is convicted then how can he blame anyone else for it? But I expect he and his pirate mates will whine about it being unfair and try their best to confuse his conviction for a stupid and dangerous act with their perceived wrongs of whaling. Surely the message here is that if you want to protest then do so within the law; and if you think Japanese whaling is illegal then take them to court and let the court decide if you are right. Are Japanese prisoners fed whale meat?