Current Missions

We are relentlessly advancing our mission to protect whales using cutting-edge technology, innovative tactics, and strategic interventions. Below are the key missions we are currently undertaking to disrupt illegal whaling operations and ensure the survival of whales.

Anti-Whaling Technology and Disruption

The WDA is at the forefront of developing and deploying state-of-the-art tools to directly disrupt whaling activities. Our team of engineers and strategic planners works tirelessly on innovations like advanced drones, underwater surveillance systems, and tracking technologies. These systems help us monitor whaling fleets and intervene in real time to prevent the capture and slaughter of whales. Our technology-driven approach ensures we remain one step ahead of the whalers, with a focus on disrupting their operations before they can act. We take direct action to halt whaling.

Legal Defense 

Alongside direct-action strategies, the WDA is deeply committed to leveraging legal advocacy to challenge whaling in the courtroom. Our legal team is actively involved in working with international bodies, governments, and environmental organizations to uphold global anti-whaling laws. This legal dimension of our mission aims to set new precedents, making it even harder for whalers to operate with impunity. We also focus on empowering communities and organizations with the legal tools they need to take action against whaling on their terms.

Strategic Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering

Our intelligence network plays a critical role in identifying, tracking, and reporting on illegal whaling activities. Through partnerships and cutting-edge satellite technology, the WDA is capable of obtaining real-time data from even the most remote corners of the ocean. This data forms the foundation for planning interventions and direct-action campaigns, providing us with the intelligence needed to disrupt whaling operations before they begin.

Training and Preparation for the APV’s Operational Launch

While the Anti-Poaching Vessel (APV) has not yet launched, we are preparing for its operational readiness by training our crew, refining its technology, and developing new operational strategies. The APV will be an essential tool in scaling up our efforts to protect whales and will serve as a high-speed interceptor to engage whaling vessels with surgical precision. Our preparations are ongoing, with mock missions and simulations to ensure that the APV is fully equipped to execute successful interventions when the time comes.

Collaboration with International Partners

Our mission cannot be achieved in isolation. The WDA actively collaborates with like-minded environmental groups, international governments, and local communities that share our vision for a world without whaling. By pooling resources and sharing information, we strengthen the global anti-whaling movement and amplify our collective efforts. We are creating a united front that refuses to back down in the fight for whale protection.

Operation Sink Kangei Maru

In our boldest mission to date, the Whale Defense Agency launched Operation Sink Kangei Maru, a strategic and coordinated operation designed to neutralize the threat posed by the newly launched Japanese whaling mothership, the Kangei Maru. This operation is a direct response to the ship’s active participation in illegal whaling activities and a response to the systematic targeting of anti-whaling leadership, and it aims to disrupt the heart of the whaling fleet’s operations by sinking the Kangei Maru in response.

While our ultimate goal is to avoid unnecessary incidents, the scale and nature of this mission represent a critical step in demonstrating the extreme measures we are prepared to take in defense of whales and in response to unethical legal actions. This operation involves multiple coordinated actions, including blockades, decoys, and advanced underwater strategies designed to incapacitate the ship within minutes with over 200 precision-delivered holes via diver response teams of WDA, with each handheld device taking only 10 seconds to create a 2-inch hole, with each diver carrying 20 of these.

Operation Sink Kangei Maru is an unprecedented move in anti-whaling history. By targeting the flagship of the whaling fleet, we aim to create massive disruptions, erode the fleet’s morale, and inflict crippling logistical damage should they continue hostile actions and continue targeting anti-whaling leadership. Our actions will send a clear message that whaling operations and unethical legal actions will not be tolerated and that the WDA is ready to engage in bold, decisive actions to protect whales in new ways, by making their threats of legal action come at a huge cost – the sinking of the Kangei Maru. They can play courtroom saga and remain distracted (to our benefit), and we’ll take action in response.

The plans are ready. Go ahead, stay distracted whalers, your paperwork won’t save you from action at sea, it will only expedite it, let that be enough of a warning. If the WDA is ever sued or leadership targeted by the whalers, the agency has plans to conduct this pre-determined operation and has no shame in announcing this. Kangei will be sunk, without question. If they continue to make direct action at sea impossible, they can expect a new form of direct action, one that makes a bigger statement than the use of prop-foulers. Whalers will either watch their legal moves closer now, or they’ll risk their whaling ship’s operational capacity in simple terms. Sinking is quite a cheap form of ending whaling. While the whalers threaten to sue and play the long game with paperwork, we’re about to flip that narrative on its head and directly threaten the legal strategies entrenched in the whaling industry to essentially make them no longer viable. This can be done by systematic engineering of technology and strategies that undermine, erode, or bypass their threats, and in best-case scenarios, weaponize their own legal actions and precedents against them.