Marcus' Back-to-School Journal

Melbourne

On this eventful day, i happened to go onboard a ship when i passed by central pier and saw a crowd gathering round the cruise liner, causing much commotion...

so being the curious soul/busy body that i am, i alighted the tram and went to investigate what all that jokers were doing...and i was deeply inspired thereafter..

I'm not sure if you guys have heard of this organization known as the Sea Shepherd? Well basically they are a bunch of conservationist who aspire to protect marine animals such as whales and seals and to stop mankind from killing them.

I was taken on a guided tour on board the ship where this lovely canadian lady was explaining to us why she is volunteering on the mission. I can clearly see her commitment to the marine life when i caught a tear in her eyes as she was telling us how the Japanese were killing the whales, so brutally, almost inhumane...it occurred to me suddenly that while some japanese are kind and gentle, there are those who's barbarous...

Apparently they have had few encounters with the japanese when the latter tried to ram their ship offcourse, nearly sinking the 'seashepherd' on few occasions...they (seashepherd) have been trying to hinder the whaling ships by chasing them off the protected waters and cutting off their fishing nets...

We were also told of the massacre of seals and its pups by japanese/norwegians, it was totally abominable!! the seals werent killed for their fur, but they were left to die and rot on a bloodbath of ice...Well seemingly the seals were accused of causing the decline of codfish production, but the fact is that the codfish has other natural predators apart from the seals, which only consume 3% of codfish in total...by killing off the seals by the thousands, the number of predators have increased, thus consuming more codfish than ever...that totally makes sense, doesnt it?

The photos that were shown to us gave me a goosebump, i was actually moved by what the conservationists are doing to protect the animals, and vow never to ever buy any seal fur or whale products...but she went too far when she encouraged everyone to become a vegan...hey, i still like eating meat, k? is not like im eating whales or seals or other endangered animals...

Sadly, very little was done on the government part...As it is, the japanese has such strong economical power that few countries would want any troubles with it, even the australian...thus putting on a blind eye whenever the japanese invades the australian seas and comes whaling illegally here...that's absolutely unheardof...

As there was little i can do on my part, i thought i should make it a mission to educate as many ppl as possible regarding the issue of protecting the world wildlife...i have always been an advocate of WWF, so why not for seashepherd as well?

well guys, we are not the only species living on the earth, are we?

let's learn to share...