Two protesters have been taken into custody after they boarded a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic. BBC

An Australian court has ruled that the activities of the Japanese whaling fleet are illegal and ordered it to halt its operations. BBC

Anti-whaling activists on Monday said they had chased the flagship of Japan’s whaling fleet from hunting grounds near Antarctica, but were divided over protest action if the Japanese returned to resume the yearly slaughter.

Greenpeace conservation activists say they have disrupted the Japanese whale hunt near Antarctica’s coast by chasing a factory ship out of the whaling zone. BBC

Anti-whaling activists on Monday said they had chased the flagship of Japan’s whaling fleet from hunting grounds near Antarctica, but were divided over protest action if the Japanese returned to resume the yearly slaughter.

Environmental group Greenpeace said on Saturday one of its ships has located the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean and is pursuing it. Planet A

Regular monthly ISCOPE II watches show fin whales now returned to West Cork, and plenty of activity at other inshore sites.

An Australian fisheries ship has begun pursuing Japan’s whaling fleet near Antarctica to gather evidence for an international court challenge to halt the yearly slaughter, officials said on Wednesday.

The 9-10m fin whale which stranded near Ballinskelligs on 28 December has now been confirmed as a live stranding.

A fin whale which live stranded on Friday, died overnight on Letterdyfe shore near Roundstone in Conamara