Sea Shepherd is asking Australians to help raise the funds it needs to take on whalers next summer. Source: AAP
SEA Shepherd is calling on Australians to help stump up the $4 million it needs to take on Japan's whalers next summer.
The call comes at a time when court action is slowing donations in the US.
Operation Relentless will be coordinated from Australia with the US arm of the militant conservation group mired in legal battles with Japan.
Big American donors, like The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, could be harder to find as the group mounts its tenth Antarctic campaign, director Bob Brown says.
"Japan is doing everything it can to put the US operation under, effectively, complete diversion by legal action," Dr Brown told reporters at the Operation Relentless launch in Hobart.
"An operation that in past years was funded by the US with its big philanthropic organisations has to be funded from outside the US now," he said.
"That responsibility is on us. We depend upon the largesse of a global public that supports what we're doing."
The former Australian Greens leader said the $4 million needed included hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair damage caused by collisions with the whaling fleet last summer.
Sea Shepherd and the Japanese blame each other for a series of dramatic clashes captured on video by both groups.
Japan's hunt, which it claims is for research, is subject to a challenge by the Australian government at the International Court of Justice.
A hearing will commence on June 22 but the case may not be concluded before the next whaling season.
An Australian coast guard vessel will also police a federal court injunction preventing Japan from whaling in Australian waters.
"(Japan is) breaking an injunction from the Australian federal court. Will it not break a ruling by the international court of justice?" Dr Brown said.
"Sea Shepherd is there to uphold the law whatever the Japanese do or whatever the court finds."
Sea Shepherd has saved more than 800 whales, 90 per cent of the Japanese quota, with its most successful campaign last summer, it said.
Founder Paul Watson remains at sea because of an INTERPOL alert issued by Japan for his arrest.
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