Greenpeace Chases Whalers
Monday, January 14 2008
From the BBC:
Greenpeace conservation activists say they have disrupted the Japanese whale hunt near Antarctica’s coast by chasing a factory ship out of the whaling zone.
Japan’s whaling fleet plans to kill about 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales by mid-April.
The hunt is part of what it calls a scientific research programme, permitted under a clause in International Whaling Commission rules.
Al Jazeera:
Greenpeace planned only to disrupt whaling by placing inflatable boats between harpoon boats and the whales