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2108 N St STE # 8616, Sacramento, CA 95816
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+1 (707) 706-9501
On this page, we’d like to provide you with some common questions and some additional context into our operations. While this is not an exhaustive list, it nonetheless covers various topics we think interest you. If you have more questions, remember to send them to us via email!
We developed a new website to better align with our evolving mission to counter whaling terrorism and whaling piracy. The site now has a more unified design, enhanced navigation, and improved features and code. We wanted a more dynamic and mobile-friendly experience for our users, reflecting our modern, forward-thinking approach to whale defense. The site also offers improved support capabilities for our growing team and initiatives.
Due to changes in web standards and technology, code changes in our website, and more, our new website no longer supports specific versions of Internet Explorer like our last website. For optimal experience, we recommend using the latest versions of modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.
We are shifting away from the traditional NGO approach. With a team that includes former military personnel, we are focusing on more strategic, covert, and advanced anti-whaling operations. Our campaigns are now more direct, effective, and aligned with our bold approach to protecting whales using a military-style approach.
Unlike Sea Shepherd, which has achieved a 53% reduction in whaling, based on 2007 data, the WDA has documented zero whales killed under our watch, meaning WDA so far has a 100% interception and prevention rate as of 2025. We aim for a 100% reduction in whaling by 2050 through consistent, strategic efforts, using a military inspired approach and internal doctrine on operations.
While other groups intervene intermittently during the season or react to news, we offer a dedicated, continuous approach, ensuring maximum impact and can predict the whalers responses to a high-degree, and have an AI system that enables WDA to stay ahead of the threat in new ways, with our in house software, based on over a decade of research performed outside of WDA.
This includes predicting defense measures to be used by the whalers. This prediction, has enabled the APV design to be engineered over a decade ago to outclass the vessels likely to defend whaling today, and only recently revealed our platforms into the world.
We are focusing on Japanese and Nordic whaling because they are among the largest threats to marine mammal populations. The scale of these hunts poses a significant danger, more so than smaller-scale aboriginal hunts like those in Alaska. While we don’t overlook these hunts, we believe our resources are most urgently needed to combat the larger, industrial-scale operations in these regions and in international and national waters.
Currently, we are not a registered 501(c)3, though we are in the process of exploring that possibility. We prioritize operational focus and innovation over administrative formalities. However, we remain open to pursuing registration in the future when it aligns with our mission and doesn’t distract from our core operations.
You can still donate despite this if you still support our mission! We won’t stop you and we greatly appreciate the support, and so will the whales who will benefit from our zero percent kill rate. Not a single whale killed during our anti-whaling missions against whalers, including during an active pursuit of a whale, which we halted, in the world’s first documented in history!
For reference, during Sea Shepherd campaigns, the whalers often managed to still kill whales in the presence of their ships, rhibs and aircraft. WDA does not allow this as our approach is intended to overwhelm, deny and outright disrupt whaling at all levels, bypassing defense efforts and destroying the whalers legal protection strategies in place by these entities, such as covering our rhib team members faces, and engaging with other rhib based elements. This is what Anti-Whaling Sea Control is about. Full scale dominance against the whalers. Why leave room for them to operate? At WDA we sure don’t. We can engineer their defeat, in simple terms.
Our use of double agents provides WDA with an intelligence advantage that traditional anti-whaling organizations cannot match. While groups like Sea Shepherd or Greenpeace primarily rely on public-facing campaigns, direct action, and advocacy, WDA uses covert methods like double agents to infiltrate whaling operations and target them from the inside in addition to our direct-action.
This capability allows us to execute precision strikes that affect the whaling industry in ways that are undetectable to the outside world, making us more effective and unpredictable. This deeper intelligence also ensures that our interventions are better timed and more impactful than other organizations’ efforts, which ensures that we don’t duplicate other organization’s operations, but rather pioneer and advance from those of today.
The Whale Defense Agency is moving towards a more militant approach because the scale and urgency of the threat to whales require stronger, faster, and more direct action, in addition to the decision making capabilities of prior service members is usually far superior than that of a civilian-led corporation hunting whales. With decades of experience confronting hostile nations, forces and people, the WDA team is more than ready to give the whalers a new problem.
Traditional NGO models often slow down necessary interventions, and we’ve realized that to effectively protect whales, we must operate with a greater sense of authority and readiness. This shift allows us to act decisively, with cutting-edge technology and high-level interventions, to disrupt whaling operations in real-time. By stepping away from the traditional NGO concept, we can ensure that our efforts are not just about advocacy, but about taking action and leading with a powerful, formidable presence. The change is about making a real impact where and when it matters most.
The Whale Defense Agency (WDA) employs a strategic structure that includes multiple specialized divisions and independent firms, each focusing on key areas like engineering, command and control, and advanced technology. This decentralized approach complicates the decision-making process for whalers, who must contend with a highly coordinated and unpredictable adversary.
By relying on independent firms operated by people connected to wda for engineering and technological support, the WDA ensures that its systems are always at the cutting edge, providing us with a unique advantage in both tactics and innovation. Our divisions are tasked with everything from surveillance and data collection to legal advocacy and operational execution, creating an unpredictable network of expertise that is difficult for whalers to anticipate or counter.
This layered, multifaceted strategy not only strengthens our operations but also increases the complexity for whalers, who face a constantly shifting and highly adaptable force. The WDA has the ability to act from multiple fronts ensuring that we can maintain the upper hand, disrupt whaling operations, and keep the pressure on at all times.
The Whale Defense Agency (WDA) employs a strategic tool called Deep-strike. It’s a handheld, but highly modular system capable of operating outside of water and well underwater in marine environments for breaching the hull of whaling ships, severing prop-foulers, cutting harpoon transfer lines and being deployed from modular drone based payload systems to destroy harpoons in just 5 seconds from activation.
We can cut through several inches of metal in just 5 seconds. The whalers tactics of prop-fouling anti-whaling ships is over, see how we’ll destroy it in just 5 seconds. We’ll let engineering do the talking, prepare to be shocked as the object is cut before your eyes, likely faster than you’ll see it drop away. Watch Video Here Of It In Action.
The WDA addresses whaling terrorism and piracy through the enforcement of existing maritime laws. This includes deploying armed maritime security officers on WDA ships to defend against hostile attacks by whaling terrorists. While the WDA prioritizes non-lethal methods to deter whaling, it recognizes that the use of lethal force may be necessary in self-defense situations when the safety of the crew, ships, and assets is at risk.
Whaling terrorism, as defined by the WDA, encompasses both the ecological harm caused by whaling and the illegal, systematic targeting of anti-whaling crews, leadership, and operations. This includes actions such as harassment, threats to life and safety, politically motivated arrests, and the sinking of anti-whaling vessels. It represents a direct attack on those who strive to protect marine life and uphold international conservation laws.
Whaling terrorism involves deliberate actions against anti-whaling forces, such as threats to personal safety, illegal detentions, and the destruction of anti-whaling vessels. For example, incidents like the sinking of the Ady Gil by Shonan Maru #2 illustrate how whaling operations can turn violent, targeting those who stand against them. For this reason, WDA is allowing the use of lethal force under anti-piracy laws as a secondary measure and will invoke measures to defend its fleet, assets and crew from direct attack.
The WDA is committed to defending its personnel, ships, and operations from whaling terrorism. This includes enforcing anti-piracy measures to protect its vessels and assets. In cases of aggression, the WDA will take necessary actions to deter and neutralize threats, treating hostile whalers as pirates under international law, which may include the use of lethal and non-lethal force.
Addressing whaling terrorism is essential to safeguarding the lives and freedoms of those working to protect marine ecosystems. By recognizing and combating these threats, the WDA ensures the continued efficacy of its missions and the safety of its crew, while reinforcing the global stance against unlawful whaling activities.
Treating whaling terrorists as pirates allows the WDA to respond within the framework of international maritime law. This means actively defending against acts of aggression at sea, taking preventative measures, and holding perpetrators accountable for their actions. It sends a clear message that such hostile actions will not be tolerated and will be met with appropriate resistance.
Cognitive Domain Operations refer to the strategies and tactics employed by the Whale Defense Agency (WDA) to influence and disrupt the decision-making processes of whaling entities, and those who oppose us.
This involves the use of psychological and informational tactics to challenge and deter whaling activities effectively and a key element includes delivering tailored content to whaling operators who visit our website.
Although by terms and policy, whalers are technically not authorized to visit the WDA website, and by visiting and continued use, they would open themselves up to legal action, by using a website in a way that is prohibited, and will invoke harassment and other laws to disrupt their process. This content we may deliver them, if we find them visiting our sites for intelligence, while similar to what is visible to our donors, features subtle modifications to prevent access to sensitive intelligence data.
Recognizing that no method is entirely foolproof and that whalers could potentially bypass these measures, the WDA has implemented a contingency policy. This policy allows for the removal of our digital presence or the cessation of hosting digital infrastructure as a direct response, even if we assume a threat is present. Such a move would deny whalers access to digital data entirely, compelling them to stop visiting the website or be forced to rely on in-person events and informants, which they would be unable to attend without any real inside information.
This also addresses the potential misuse of VPNs and other technologies that might enable whalers to circumvent restrictions. By intercepting website traffic in real time, the WDA tailors content based on group and threat-based profiles, ensuring a dynamic and secure approach to information dissemination and protection.
Yes, the WDA’s Cognitive Domain Operations are strictly non-violent and completely pioneered by WDA into the anti-whaling landscape of operations in a world’s first documented division in an anti-whaling organization like WDA. These operations focus on the power of information and psychological influence rather than physical confrontation or harm and they complement our direct-action on the ground teams.
We are adopting a more unpredictable operational model, employing covert, semi-public strategies and delaying the revelation of campaign activities until well after they are completed. This preserves our intelligence and operational capabilities. Additionally, we are implementing innovative measures to protect our team members, including disguises and face-altering technologies, to prevent identification and safeguard their freedom to travel.
We are developing several new strategies, including a militant-style approach and a distributed, persistent anti-whaling area control strategy. Our ultimate goal is to establish a sustainable anti-whaling sea control framework by 2050. These projects, alongside our ongoing operations, are designed to ensure the long-term success of our mission to protect whales globally.
To ensure the safety of our team members, especially those involved in physical engagements, we are utilizing advanced defensive measures. This includes high-tech disguises, facial feature engineering, and other covert techniques to protect their identities and reduce risks from whaling defense networks, ensuring our volunteers and former military are not easily identifiable to the public or hostile governments and legal teams of the whaling fleet, preserving volunteers freedom of movement, during active operations and well after their departure from WDA operations.
We employ state-of-the-art surveillance, tracking, and intervention technologies that allow us to stay one step ahead of whalers. Our intelligence-gathering capabilities, combined with our upcoming advanced vessels and aircraft and leased assets, give us the edge in anticipating and countering whaling operations. Additionally, our team’s military, naval, special forces, Marine and other experiences and strategic mindset allow us to respond to threats in real-time and adapt quickly to changing conditions, and to innovate and evolve in ways the whaling industry has never faced in the modern era.
The PsyOps (Psychological Operations) Division plays a critical role in influencing the perception and behavior of both whalers and the public. By strategically targeting the mental and emotional responses of those involved in or supportive of whaling, we aim to disrupt the operations of whaling fleets, demoralize crews, and undermine the legitimacy of their activities. Our PsyOps efforts support our physical and technological operations by creating confusion, fear, and doubt within whaling communities, ultimately making it harder for them to operate effectively. It’s actually a novel form of anti-whaling warfare, one that the agency is pioneering and leading the way in.
We deploy a variety of psychological tactics, including misinformation, disinformation, and targeted communication campaigns, to sow doubt and confusion among whalers and their supporters. This includes spreading false information, taking actions, redefining terminology, creating uncertainty about their safety, and highlighting the consequences of engaging in whaling against a force like WDA.
Additionally, we may use more direct tactics, such as broadcasting unsettling messages, actually taking action on those messages or distributing materials that challenge the moral and legal justification for whaling. The full extent of the division’s operations are not as public as our other operations, but they do a lot more than just what we discussed here, they perform a host of roles, intended to defeat whaling in a new domain.
PsyOps enhances our traditional strategies by disrupting the morale of whaling crews and their supporters. While our physical operations focus on direct interventions, our PsyOps efforts weaken the resolve of the opposition, forcing them to question their actions. By combining psychological tactics with high-tech interventions and strategic disruptions, we create an environment where whalers are less able to operate smoothly, amplifying the impact of our on-the-ground work.
Our PsyOps Division uses a variety of tools, including social media manipulation, targeted advertising campaigns, psychological profiling, the profiling of specific targets in the whaling industry (building a complex profile on their life, movement, and actions, to further WDA’s anti-whaling activities) and the dissemination of strategic content.
We also employ high-tech methods like covert sabotage, informant, double agents, electronic warfare, radio warfare, digital intelligence collection and media operations, crafting messages that resonate deeply with the audience we intend to influence. All of these tools are part of a broader strategy to manipulate perceptions and create a psychological barrier that hinders whaling operations in more ways than you could ever imagine.
The success of our PsyOps operations is measured by the impact on whaling operations, including the reduction of whaling activity and disruptions in crew morale. We also assess public perception, including how whaling supporters respond to our campaigns, as well as the long-term psychological effects on the industry. These metrics are often difficult to quantify directly, but we track changes in behavior, decision-making, and operational patterns as a result of our psychological interventions, field operations, advanced technology, and more.
While our primary target is whaling crews and their supporters, our PsyOps efforts also extend to the public to influence their attitudes toward whaling, such as Japanese citizens, by using their culture, language and other elements as one example. Public perception plays a vital role in shaping policy and activism, so we engage in campaigns that educate, inform, and sway public opinion to rally support for anti-whaling efforts. By shaping public understanding of whaling’s impact on marine ecosystems and eroding the terminology used by the whalers, we build a larger, more global movement against whaling.
We operate within strict ethical guidelines to ensure our PsyOps tactics are used responsibly and effectively. Our goal is to influence behavior in a way that causes no harm to innocent individuals and stays within legal and moral bounds. We focus on psychological strategies that challenge the whalers’ decision-making and morale, without resorting to tactics that would jeopardize the safety or well-being of non-combatants.
The WDA addresses whaling terrorism and piracy through the enforcement of existing maritime laws. This includes deploying armed maritime security officers on WDA ships to defend against hostile attacks by whaling terrorists. While the WDA prioritizes non-lethal methods to deter whaling, it recognizes that the use of lethal force may be necessary in self-defense situations when the safety of the crew, ships, and assets is at risk.
Lethal force is authorized when whaling terrorists exhibit aggressive behavior that threatens the life of those under WDA control, approach WDA ships within a specific distance, or pose a direct threat to the life and safety of WDA agents, who are often former military personnel. Although the WDA aims to avoid lethal force whenever possible, it reserves the right to protect its crew and operations using appropriate measures under international maritime law.
Yes, the WDA strongly prefers non-lethal options to deter whaling and manage threats. The agency focuses on advanced technology, strategic interventions, and direct action to disrupt whaling operations without escalating to violence. However, in situations where the safety of its crew and ships is endangered, the WDA is prepared to act decisively to ensure their protection.
Armed maritime security officers are included as a precautionary measure to safeguard WDA vessels and crew from the rising threat of whaling terrorism and piracy. Their presence ensures that the WDA can respond effectively to any aggressive actions at sea, similar to other anti-piracy teams operating under international law on other vessels.
The WDA does not intend to use force as a primary response but recognizes the necessity of being prepared for all potential threats. The agency’s policy emphasizes preventing conflict and resolving situations through non-violent means. However, when faced with unavoidable threats, the WDA reserves the right to defend its ships and crew, using force if necessary, to uphold its mission of protecting whales and marine ecosystems.
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