'Whale Wars' back for additional

Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" continues to be restored for any fifth season after several weeks of back-and-forth over if the show's protags, a militant animal-privileges group known as the Ocean Shepherds, would have the ability to find any whalers to chase away after apparently frightening away Japanese whaling concern the Institute of Cetacean Research in the finish of season four. The Ocean Shepherd campaign chronicled in season five will go back to the waters around Antarctica, where whaling through the ICR continues. Even just in a clip for that coming season, Animal Planet prexy and g.m. Marjorie Kaplan teases this might be the final season for that show the Ocean Shepherds have produced lots of worldwide tension using the ICR, that is backed through the Japanese government. Japanese whalers contend the ICR's activities are legal and above board the Ocean Shepherds the company's mentioned agenda is really a smokescreen which its harpooning and processing of whales violates the moratorium on whaling in worldwide waters. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com