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Blame Canada South Park spoof. Canada and Spain attempt to sink a bottom-trawling protection plan. <a href="http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/fun-stuff/e-cards/blame-canada-and-espa-a" target="_blank">Send this e-card to a friend</a>.

The Greenpeace ships MY Esperanza and MY Arctic Sunrise in Capetown on the day of the launch of Defending Our Oceans.

During the IWC meeting Greenpeace activists attempted a demonstration where they would install a symbolic whale tail graveyard on the beach before St. Kitts security stopped them.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza sails into Sydney Harbour from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. After 42 days at sea, part of which was spent assisting the fire-disabled whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru and then escorting the entire whaling fleet out of Antarctic waters, the Esperanza will spend only 48 hours in Sydney and then sail directly to Japan, to call for the Nisshin Maru to be decommissioned before the next whaling season begins.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza sails into Sydney Harbour from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. After 42 days at sea, part of which was spent assisting the fire-disabled whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru and then escorting the entire whaling fleet out of Antarctic waters, the Esperanza will spend only 48 hours in Sydney and then sail directly to Japan, to call for the Nisshin Maru to be decommissioned before the next whaling season begins.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza sails into Sydney Harbour from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. After 42 days at sea, part of which was spent assisting the fire-disabled whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru and then escorting the entire whaling fleet out of Antarctic waters, the Esperanza will spend only 48 hours in Sydney and then sail directly to Japan, to call for the Nisshin Maru to be decommissioned before the next whaling season begins.

Campaigners Sakyo Noda and Melanie Duchin radio the Japanese government whaling fleet. The message relayed from the Esperanza was: "For the sake of the environment, the whales and your crew - never again!"

The GPS UNIT on board the Esperanza showing the ship passing the 60 degree south latitude line, the boundary of Japanese government-designated whaling grounds.

Greenpeace activists onboard the call for the end of whaling in Antarctica because of the unacceptable threat to whales and the pristine environment posed by the Japanese whaling fleet.

Humpback whale and calf off the coast of Tonga

Humpback whale off the coast of Tonga

Activists wearing “Tax” hats unveiled the whale with supporting banners reading: "Amakudai", "waste of tax", "useless public interest corporation”.

Greenpeace activists wearing Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and US President Barack Obama masks unveil a three-metre whale outside the Japanese Diet while displaying banners reading: “Yes, We can.” “Stop Research Whaling”. Greenpeace is urging the two leaders to work together to end Japan’s “research whaling”. programme.