In Germany, was arrested Paul Watson, the founder of the Society for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society . This was reported on the organization's website.

The arrest was made May 12 in Frankfurt at the request issued by Costa Rica, where the environmentalist might be deported. Watson is accused of obstructing the movement of ships. According to Agence France-Presse, he was also suspected of attempted murder.

The charges against the environmentalist are associated with an incident in 2002. Conflict took place in the waters of Guatemala. There, environmentalists have fought against illegal, according to them, shark fishing, which carried out the Costa Rican ship Varadero. Environmentalists say, carrying out the order of the authorities of Guatemala, demanded that the crew of Varadero to stop fishing and proceed to the port to the proceedings. But then the ship of the Sea Shepherd environmentalists is become an aim of the Guatemalan ships sent to intercept it. Meanwhile the crew of Varadero accused ecologists of intention to kill them.

Environmentalists from the Sea Shepherd became famous for the struggle with the Japanese whaling in the Antarctic. In July 2010, activist Peter Bethune was sentenced in Japan for two years in prison suspended for attempting to arrest the captain of the Japanese whaling schooner.

A Whale is mammal and it was known already in antiquity. Whales breathe through lungs, they are warm-blooded, feed the calves milk from the mammary glands.

The whales and all cetaceans are likely to have the terrestrial ancestors. In the evolution,  animals first emerged from the water, and then returned there. It happened about 50 million years ago.

Perhaps the ancient whales gave birth on land. In the period 2000-2004 in the mountains of Pakistan have been found fossilized remains of a pregnant female and male whale.

The blood of the whale is able to absorb more oxygen than the blood of terrestrial mammals.

Scientists believe that the front fins of whale - no other than the altered paw.

The female whale calves are hatching 11 months, babies are born a length of about 7.5 meters and weighing 2-3 tons, with a whale egg size does not exceed the mouse oocyte.

Approximately seven months shorthead fed mother's milk, daily drinking about 380 liters. By this age whales grow to 16 meters in length and weigh 23 tons.

Top-most

Whales - the largest, longest (up to 33 meters), the heaviest (150 tons), the loudest, most enduring mammals.

The whales have the biggest brain

The largest whale, and accordingly, the largest mammal of the planet - blue whale. And a female blue whale is always larger than male.

On a tongue of a blue whale, which weighs up to 4 tons, can fit about 50 people. The heart of a blue whale is of size of a small car weighs 600-700 kg and diameter of vessels with a bucket pumps about 8 thousand liters of blood. For 1 second blue whale breathes approximately 2 thousand liters of air, just as in the light of this giant can accommodate up to 14 cubic meters of air.

Whales can not sleep for three months, not eating for eight, not breathing for up to two hours and at the same time overcome the huge distances up to several thousand kilometers.

Every adult blue whale consumes about a million calories. The menu includes some animal tonne of krill - small crustaceans. General, whales eat small fish, cuttle fish and plankton. They can swallow large fish and, once in the stomach of a 16-meter whale was found two 3-meter shark.

They are special

Eye of the large whale weighs about a kilogram. Very small, adapted for life in the sea of eyes capable of withstanding high pressure by immersing the animal to a greater depth of the tear ducts are allocated big fat tears to help more clearly seen in the water and protect the eyes from exposure to salt.

In whales there are no external ears, they hear the lower jaw. From the sound of it is in a special cavity in the middle and inner ear.

Whales are always listening, because they do not have poorly developed sense of smell and sight. The sound gives the whales to navigate, communicate with each other and eat, although the exact purpose of the sounds produced by whales have not yet been elucidated.

The whales are suffering from noise in the oceans, which coming from people.

White - the most "talkative" representatives of cetaceans, because of the diversity of published beluga whale sounds, they are often called "sea canaries."

Tails of whales individual as fingerprints in humans. Slits and grooves, scars, spots of brown algae on the tails of whales create unique images.

Big and helpless

Decision of the International Whale Commission in 1986, was established World Day of whales, when a ban was placed on the whale fishery.

Whales killed, including for baleen - horny plates on the upper jaw toothless whales. With the help of the baleen (up to 800 pieces in one whale) animals sift the water, filtering out their main food - plankton. At corset Baroque required about a kilogram of whalebone.

In the production of expensive perfume as a scent release using a unique substance amber. This costs up to $ 300 per kilogram and with unpleasant smell. Ambergris is formed in the intestines of sperm whales - how and why, is unknown. Sometimes whales pours out whole swathes of amber, then it can be found on the shore, but most amber is extracted from killed sperm whales. The pieces can weigh from a few grams to 400 kg.

Now it is only allowed aboriginal whaling exclusively for the needs of indigenous people, as well as the removal of whales for scientific purposes by special permission of the Government member of ICC.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd demanded Japan to halt whale hunting in Antarctica until November 2010, reports BBC News. Otherwise, the head of the Australian Government has threatened to bring against Tokyo in the process of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

The statement was made in anticipation of his visit to Australia chapter of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. In the air channel 7 TV Rudd said that he intends to raise the issue during the negotiations on the complete cessation of whaling by Japan. If the issue can not be resolved at the diplomatic level, the Prime Minister promised to apply to organs of international justice

Japan acceded to the International Convention of 1986 on a moratorium on the commercial slaughter of whales. However, since the document allows to kill the whales for scientific purposes, the Japanese whalers use this loophole to continue fishing. As a result whales are sent for sale in shops seafood.

BBC News notes that in 2010 is the deadline for prime minister Kevin Rudd - in a country facing elections. One of the Rudd election campaign promises was to attract Japan's legal responsibility for the continuation of whaling, but it has not been fulfilled. 

 Environmental organizations regularly struggle against the Japanese whalers in the southern seas, first of all is Sea Shepherd. In January 2010 there was a clash with a Japanese whaling boat and the whale protest boat Ady Gil. As a result, nature defender vessel was seriously damaged, but the Japanese sailors refused to come to his aid.

Environmentalists from the international organization Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, drove the Japanese whaling fleet leave the area south-ocean whale sanctuary, said the report organization.

Organization Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and other environmentalists are opposed to whaling in the Antarctic and actively prevent the Japanese whalers to hunt these marine mammals. In particular, environmentalists and whalers mutual exchange of volleys WATER-JET guns, and in February superlodka ecologists Ady Gil sank after colliding with a whaling ship. 

Despite the ban on commercial catches of whales established by agreement of 1986, Japan continued their fishing, referring to the provision in the agreement that allows "research on whales, with possible fatal" than has drawn criticism from countries such as Australia, Britain and New Zealand, and attracts constant attention of ecologists around the world. 

"After repeated calls Sea Shepherds to stop their illegal activities and withdraw from the zone of south-ocean whaling, the Japanese vessels Nisshin Maru, Yushin Maru, Yushin Maru-2 and the Shonan Maru-2 changed the course of 60 degrees and headed north," - noted in the message. 
Ships ecologists Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker intend to continue to prosecute the whalers and try to prevent any whaling operations until enough fuel reserves. 

“We did not actually expect them to follow our orders to quit the Whale Sanctuary but they have indeed exited and are now running outside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.” Said Captain Paul Watson. “They have not killed a single whale since February 5th.  We intend to turn four whaling free days into weeks.”

 In early 2009, environmentalists argued that Japan, which considers whaling a cultural tradition, was able to get only 679 whales, despite plans to catch 850. 

Some ships have returned home after clashes with activists of the organization Sea Shepherd Conservation, one ship was damaged in a collision with a ship ecologists. The Japanese ships were unable to hunt whales in a total of 16 days due to bad weather and clashes with activists.