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The MV Steve Irwin was the 59-metre (194 ft) flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and was used in their direct action campaigns against whaling and against illegal fisheries activities. The vessel was built in 1975 and formerly served as a Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency conservation enforcement patrol boat, the FPV Westra ...
Nov 15, 2019 · In December 2007, we renamed the ship in honor of the Australian conservationist Steve Irwin and set about effectively intervening against illegal Japanese whaling operations in the South Ocean Whale Sanctuary, returning every year to chase and block and to eventually shut down the whaling fleet.
Dec 3, 2018 · Monday, 03 Dec, 2018. Sea Shepherd’s flagship vessel the M/Y Steve Irwin has conducted multiple campaigns in defense of the world’s oceans; from protecting pilot whales in the Faroes to humpback whales off the Kimberley coast of Australia. The M/Y Steve Irwin helped to shut down six illegal Chinese drift-netters in the South Indian Ocean ...
In 2016-2017 Sea Shepherd Global returned to the Southern Ocean with the Steve Irwin and the Ocean Warrior for our 11th Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign since 2002, with the goal of stopping the Japanese fleet of poachers from killing whales in the internationally-recognized sanctuary. Learn more.
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Dec 23, 2017 · Sea Shepherd conservationists on board their ship, the Steve Irwin, approach a Japanese ‘scientific’ whaler near Antarctica in 2008. Photograph: Adam Lau/Sea Shepherd/Reuters. The Observer...
Dec 5, 2007 · Wednesday, 05 Dec, 2007. Sea Shepherd Renames Its Whale Defending Ship the Steve Irwin. Terri Irwin has granted the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society permission to rename its ship currently known as Robert Hunter in honor of her late husband, Steve Irwin.
