Subject: Attn: J Orlin Grabbe

November: Iceland ignores Sea Shepherd's warning to comply with the IWC ban on commercial whaling. Sea Shepherd agents sink half of Iceland's whaling fleet in Reykjavik harbor and destroy their whale processing station.

1988 March: A Sea Shepherd agent documents the killing of dolphins by a U.S. tuna seiner. The footage scandalizes the nation, embarrasses the tuna industry, and leads to the creation of the "dolphin-safe" tuna label law.

1989 June: The Sea Shepherd II intercepts two Venezuelan tuna seiners off the coast of Costa Rica, documents evidence of kills exceeding a thousand dolphins, disrupts Mexican tuna seiner operations in the Eastern Pacific.

1990 August: The Sea Shepherd II encounters two Japanese drift net vessels in the eastern Pacific, cuts and confiscates thirty miles of drift net.

1991 July: Sea Shepherd goes to Trinidad to protest Caribbean driftnetting by the Taiwanese. Sea Shepherd is made an official auxiliary to the Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard.

December 20th, 1991: The United Nation General Assembly approves Resolution 46/215 which bans drift net fishing worldwide as of January 1993.

1992 March: SSCS establishes the Oceanic Research and Conservation Action Force, or O.R.C.A.FORCE, to coordinate all data gathering and crew actions of Sea Shepherd. Lisa Distefano is appointed Director.

May: O.R.C.A.FORCE agent scuttles the illegal driftnet vessel Jiang Hai in the harbor at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. One-click activism: Send this report & your comments to the Costa Rican Ambassador: http://eactivist.actionize.org/actnow.php?1338

October 31st, 2001

Cocos Island Emergency A report from Nicola Ghersinich and Mario Arroyo

Every year, 1,250 visitors come to scuba dive Cocos Island, off Costa Rica, attracted by its extraordinary biodiversity of this World Heritage Site.

Today, Cocos Island can no longer be considered a marine reserve. It is now a fishing base. What had been considered a sanctuary for threatened marine species is now just an extended community for fishermen to exploit.

We are confronting a crisis. (cont at http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/cocos/pr110601.html