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.
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza, which has been drifting off the coast of Japan for six days, after being effectively banned from going into port, sailed into Yokohama Bay this morning.
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza will spend 48 hours re-supplying in Australia, after 42 days at sea and then sail directly for Japan to continue to campaign for an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Greenpeace today launched a first global database of blacklisted, illegal fishing vessels, in a bid to tackle the huge problem of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, a $9 billion rogue industry which is having a devastating effect on fish stocks and biodiversity in some of the most ecologically important areas of the world’s oceans.
