{"id":2655,"date":"2009-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/bill-watson-nz-sea-shepherd-conservation-society-coordinator\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:20:15","slug":"bill-watson-nz-sea-shepherd-conservation-society-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/bill-watson-nz-sea-shepherd-conservation-society-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Watson, NZ Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year now we learn of the dreaded Summer Season hunt by Japanese whalers of the innocent whales of the Antarctic waters. When will this nightmare end for us and the whales of the world?<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the alarm bells ringing through out the Sea Shepherd fleet, as they race to the aid of all whales - to head off the whalers who have no apparent conscience and consciousness of sentience. <\/p>\n<p>With the Rudd Government and musician now Environmental Cabinet Minister, <a title=\"Peter Garrett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/P_Garrett_MP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Garrett<\/a> prevaricating around promises they made on sending a naval ship down South to support the whales, we need statesmanship, courage and action now!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, NZ is sending its Earth Race boat to head off the whalers and assist the \"Steve Irwin.\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrace.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.earthrace.net<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So let's be supportive and rally around our kin the whales and send a unanimous message that a conscious civilisation has to honour the sentience of such magnificent beings as cetaceans.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Learn about The Cove, the DVD which documents the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seashepherd.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.seashepherd.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And send a strong message to Foreign Minister Murry McCully to take action too. <a href=\"mailto:m.mccully@ministers.govt.nz\">m.mccully@ministers.govt.nz<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hands on deck, it's action stations yet again as pirates and whalers invade Australian and Antarctic territorial waters to kill more whales!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}