Sea Shepherd Australia

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Operation Jodari
Operation Jodari is our latest campaign with Tanzania to tackle Illegal, Unreported & Unregulated (IUU) fishing in East Africa.
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Operation Milagro
Our ongoing campaign to defend the highly-endangered vaquita porpoise from extinction in Mexico. Milagro means miracle in Spanish.
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Operation Sola Stella
Our ongoing mission to combat Illegal, Unreported & Unregulated (IUU) fishing in Liberia.
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News & Commentary

May 16, 2019

Plastic Pollution An Unseen Epidemic On Remote Australian Islands. Latest research reveals an overwhelming quantity of plastic on one of Australia’s most remote coral atolls: the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

February 21, 2019

12,549 cigarette butts in one hour: Our beaches are not ashtrays

OVER 90 volunteers collected an alarming 12,549 cigarette butts in just one hour from clean-ups organised by Sea Shepherd Australia’s Marine Debris Campaign at Coogee Beach and Goldstein Reserve in Sydney on the weekend.

Feb 19, 2019

Ziggy hits right note at Sea Shepherd Marine Debris Campaign clean-ups

WE were delighted that Australian singer-songwriter Ziggy Alberts was able to join Sea Shepherd Australia's Marine Debris Campaign at two of their beach clean-up events in…

Feb 05, 2019

Butt it out: 5700 cigarette butts picked-up at Tallebudgera Creek in one hour

OVER 120 volunteers from Sea Shepherd Australia and Stop Adani on the Gold Coast picked-up 8977 pieces of rubbish – including an alarming 5700 cigarette butts – from Tallebudgera…

Jan 31, 2019

Have your say on Single-Use Plastics in South Australia

Single-use plastics is a very important issue both nationally and globally with many countries and regions, like the European Union, recently introducing new legislation to ban…

Jan 31, 2019

Sea Shepherd supports Cash-for-Containers Schemes to combat plastic pollution

Sea Shepherd Australia's Marine Debris Campaign strongly supports Cash-for-Container Schemes around the country to combat the growing tide against plastic pollution, including the…