A government official says Japan has temporarily suspended its Antarctic whaling operations after repeated disruptions by a conservation group.

MILITANT anti-whaling campaigners said yesterday they had launched a new Godzilla speedboat to chase Japanese harpooners hunting the giant mammals in Antarctic waters.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted an anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding a harpoon boat as part of a protest against the ship’s whale hunting expedition in Antarctic seas in February.

A CONSERVATION group’s boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water yesterday after it was struck by a Japanese whaling ship in the freezing waters of Antarctica, the group said.

A conservation group’s boat was sinking today after its bow sheared off in a collision with a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctica.

Japanese whalers and militant conservationists clashed in the Antarctic Ocean over two days with weapons including water cannon, blinding lasers and bottles of rancid acid.

A group of militant conservationists embroiled in a series of violent clashes with Japanese whalers in the Antarctic Ocean decided to end its campaign for the season.

A group of radical anti-whaling activists said they were pelted with bloody chunks of whale meat and blubber after their boat collided with a Japanese whaling vessel in a dramatic Antarctic Ocean clash.

JAPANESE whalers blasted water from a cannon at conservationists who hurled bottles of rancid butter and paint during a clash in frigid Antarctic waters yesterday.

Japanese whalers and conservationists clashed again in the Antarctic today.

The captain and first officer of a ship used by a conservation group to protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt have been charged with getting too close to hunters.

The Canadian government plans to bring charges against a conservation group which it said came too close to sealers as it protested against the country’s annual hunt.

A coastguard icebreaker and a ship owned by a conservation group collided today as tensions mounted over the annual Canadian seal hunt.

Activists who have clashed violently with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters in recent months were headed back to port today because they were running out of fuel.

Japanese whalers and the activists who have vowed to stop them pledged to continue their activities in Antarctica today.

Two activists who jumped on board a Japanese whaling boat off Antarctica have been returned to their ship by Australian officials.

The widow of TV “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin is to launch non-lethal research of whales in Antarctic waters next year, in a bid to shame Japan’s scientific whale kill.

Former French film star Brigitte Bardot returned to Canada, joining animal conservationists in the growing protest against the country’s contentious seal hunt.

THE sea turned blood red when Japanese fishermen hacked to death dolphins they had trapped in coves around a small port.