Comments on: Sea Shepherd To Blast Whalers With Maori War-Cry Chorus

By: Chathura Asanga kulasinghe

Chathura Asanga kulasinghe — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:10:20 +0000

This is an amazing effort! Specially, it’s a funny thing and importantly it’s for protecting the nature from eager people!
“lt.Col John Shepard against the Wraiths who sucks whales lives!”

Weldone!!!!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:34:13 +0000

To Ben: The Te Ohu Kaimoana Trust chief executive was quoted in the Otago Daily Times on January 14 2010 as saying that (1) the Trust supported the indigenous whaling rights of other nations and (2) the Trust would be interested in taking whale meat from whale strandings. In the same news item the Maori Party said that it had no policy on whaling.

So at least one Maori fisheries group HAS expressed a desire to take whale meat.

To your other point – although there is no evidence of pre-European whaling by Maori, there is evidence of dolphin hunting and of driving pilot whales ashore during mass strandings (as opposed to merely taking advantage of those already stranded). Maori canoes were not suited to the hunting of large whales and this may be the only reason that Maori were not whale hunters. You might want to check early Maori oral history – rarely quoted today. There are plenty of worthwhile resources in the universities around NZ and at the National Library of New Zealand.

By: Vaultfm

Vaultfm — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:35:35 +0000

You guys are so mean!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:45:19 +0000

To Dan,Maori only ate the Whales that stranded themselves on the beach,they never hunted them until Whalers entered the Pacific.PS,they arent “trying to get the right to do it again” as you’ve ill-informly said so.

By: Devon

Devon — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:17:55 +0000

This whole thing sounds like a bunch of children playing games.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:48:00 +0000

Ironic that the Maori´s used to eat whale, and are trying to get the right to do it again…

By: dagsluiting | Maori War-Cry Chorus - Sargasso

dagsluiting | Maori War-Cry Chorus - Sargasso — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:18:11 +0000

[...] om 23:59 door Carlos De nieuwe Sea Shepherd stealth boot “Ady Gil” heeft achter op een 9000 Watt sound system gemonteerd. Als ze Japanse walvisjagers tegenkomen draaien ze het Maori strijdlied “Tangaroa: [...]

By: Rolf Henning

Rolf Henning — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:51:17 +0000

It is actually highly illegal to drop something from the chopper, Breach of the ATS and would cause the pilot to lose his FAA license.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:57:15 +0000

He should play some Armin Van Buuren remix.

By: EARTHWARRIOR117

EARTHWARRIOR117 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:34:49 +0000

I don’t think it is illegal, but it would be more likely to harm someone than manual deployment.