WHALE WARIOR

Mission To protect sea Life and educate local public about the importance of marine life and the survival of the ecosystems for this and comming generations. General Information The wHALE WARRIOR PERU supports organizatons as Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) and Greenpeace and is a non-profit, marine conservation organization based in Tumbes in Peru South America. The group uses direct action tactics to protect sealife. The Whale warrior Peru currently operates the vessels Pulpos Lima, and in Tumbes and Piura founded by Rodrigo Franco Seoane and most of the group's recent activities take place in National Peruvian waters and international waters. The group has a strong focus on public relations to spread their message via the media.

The organization was founded in 1988 under the name of Proteccion de fauna Animal and Defensoria de cetaceos y lobos marinos del Peru by Rodrigo Franco Seoane who was assigned by The Camara de Diputados del Peru as a scientist of fondos marinos del Peru with the purpose of protecting sea life and developing an awareness in the media and public of protection of sea living creatures from depredation and promote their survival under the unbrella of the Peruvian government, an early member of Greenpeace, after a dispute with that organization over what Watson saw as its lack of more aggressive intervention. It has received support for its tactics against fishing, whaling, and seal hunting from quarters such as media personalities, while critics have called the direct action violent. Operations have included scuttling and disabling whaling vessels at harbor, intervening in Peruvian seal hunts, ramming other vessels, trying to temporarily blind or disorient whalers with a laser device, throwing bottles of foul-smelling butyric acid onto vessels at sea, boarding of whaling vessels while at sea, and seizure and destruction of drift nets at sea. Sea Warrior claims that their aggressive actions are necessary as the international community has shown itself unwilling or unable to stop species-endangering whaling and fishing practices. Some governments and organizations have referred to them as terrorists. We think that the real terrorists are the fishing factory ships who destroy the ecosystem by dropping gigantic nets and capturing undiscriminated amounts of sea creatures for the gigantic comercial trade and the voragime need of business of fisheries, also its mission is to protect and educate the public from the fragile verge of extintion of these escential animals to the ecosystem and educate local artisanes fishers to promote the eco tourism for a better non-destructing approach to develope other means for tourism as per whale and sea lions watching. Basic Info Founded December 1988 Awards NBC SCHOLARSHIP CBS SCHOLARSHIP PBS SCHOLARSHIP NATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE COMMUNICATION ARTS Products SAFE NETS DOLPHIN FRIENDLY NETS SEA LION CARE SAILBOATS SEA LIFE FRIENDLY PROPELLER COVER SOLAR ENERGY WIND ENERGY Contact Info Email RODRIGOFRANCOSEOANE@BLOGSPOT.COM Website http://WWW.RODRIGOFRANCOSEOANE.BLOGSPOT.COM Una ballena y su cría recorren el mar de Chorrillos, Barranco y Miraflores Los dos cetáceos fueron avistados ayer primero en La Herradura, a unos tres kilómetros de la playa. Es raro que se acerquen a la costa. Esta ballena hembra de unos 12 metros fue fotografiada ayer cerca del muelle de Chorrillos. Al momento de la foto, su cría se encontraba sumergida. (Foto: ORCA)

Una ballena y su cría fueron avistadas ayer en las costas de Chorrillos, Barranco y Miraflores. Se trata de mamíferos de la especie “Eubalaena australis”, comúnmente denominada franca austral, los cuales nadaron a unos 3 km de línea costera desde las 10 a.m. hasta las 3 p.m. El presidente de la Organización Científica para la Conservación de Animales Acuáticos (ORCA), Carlos Yaipén, logró fotografiar de cerca a las ballenas y dijo a El Comercio que la hembra y su cría tienen unos 12 y 3 metros, respectivamente. Según agregó, estos mamíferos llegan hasta el litoral sur de Lima cada año en agosto: “Hemos seguido a este par de ballenas desde el 2006, pero siempre llegaban hasta San Bartolo”. La aparición de estos cetáceos se debe al enfriamiento del océano, comentó Patricia Majluf, directora del Centro para la Sostenibilidad Ambiental de la Universidad Cayetano Heredia. “El Océano Pacífico está alterado debido al ingreso de una masa de agua fría empujada por el anticiclón del sur. La ballena franca austral siempre pasa por el Perú, pero rara vez cerca de la costa”, indicó para agregar luego que esa clase de ballenas se encuentra en peligro de extinción debido a la caza indiscriminada desde el siglo XIX. Por su parte, la bióloga marina del Instituto del Mar del Perú (Imarpe), Delia Vega, sostuvo que “lo más probable es que se trate de una madre que esté enseñando a nadar a su cría. Ambos deben estar buscando krill para comer”. Tanto Majluf como Vega coincidieron en que las ballenas avistadas frente a Lima no representan un peligro para bañistas ni pescadores. Tags: Barranco, Miraflores, Ballenas, Chorrillos, La Herradura, ORCA, Ballena franca austral,