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Press Releases
21 May 2007
Whales and dolphins drowned in nets and killed by ship strike were laid out in the centre of Berlin by Greenpeace activists today as a stark reminder of the range of threats to cetaceans,just one week before the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Alaska.
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The fire-damaged whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru enters Tokyo's bay.
Greenpeace's ship, Esperanza, was in the Antarctic to stop the hunt in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, but instead stayed with the Nisshin Maru, assisting with safety for the crew and the whole fleet.
Greenpeace is calling for the Nisshin Maru to be retired from the whaling fleet and for the government to give a full public account of the cause of the fire that left one man dead and the ship crippled in the icy Southern Ocean for ten days.
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The disabled Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru with a re-fuelling vessel and hunter vessel tied alongside. Fire broke out on the Nisshin Maru on Thursday and one man is still missing. The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is close by, and has repeated the offer to assist the whaling fleet including possibly towing her out of the Southern Ocean.
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The MY Esperanza in the foreground of the disabled Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru, a re-fuelling vessel and a hunter vessel tied alongside it. Fire broke out on the Nisshin Maru last Thursday and one man is still missing.The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is there to offer to assist the whaling fleet including possibly towing her out of the Southern Ocean.
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Factsheets
05 December 2006
The Gulf of California, also known as the “World’s Aquarium”, receives around 2.1 million tourists every year. More than half of them are foreigners, mostly from the U.S. They generate revenue of nearly 2,000 million dollars. 68.8% of the tourists who visited Mexico from January to September 2006 were from the U.S., followed by tourists from Canada (8.7%), United Kingdom (3%) and Spain (2.6%).
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03 October 2006
Six black listed Georgian flagged fishing vessels are currently in the Russian port of Kaliningrad. All six arrived between September 14th and 19th 2006. These are the trawlers named CARMEN, EVA, ISABELLA, JUANITA, ROSITA and ULLA. Greenpeace calls on Russia to act according to its legal obligations as a NEAFC member state and arrest or expel the pirate trawlers.
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13 March 2006
Up to two metres long, weighing in at as much as 1,500lbs or nearly 700 kilos, able to sprint as fast as a horse, dive a mile in minutes with a metallic flash, the tuna is one of the kings of the ocean. Like us, it is warm blooded. Its ability to regulate its body temperature lets it migrate across oceans, swimming thousands of kilometres each year and making it an ideal survivor in a range of conditions.
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