Posted by jossc — 22 January 2008 at 11:44am
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After eleven days successfully preventing the Japanese whaling fleet from killing whales in the Southern Ocean, the crew of the Esperanza were this morning able to inconvenience them still further by delaying the refuelling of their factory ship, the Nisshin Maru.
Posted by jossc — 18 January 2008 at 4:36pm
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Here's the latest video update from Esperanza, on patrol in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary protecting fin and minke whales from whalers, plus a blog update from Dave, our intrepid onboard webbie:
Posted by jossc — 14 January 2008 at 5:16pm
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Greenpeace campaigner Sakyo Noda contacts the Japanese whaling fleet
Good news from Esperanza, our
ice-class vessel on patrol in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Yesterday
the Espy had a face to face encounter with the Japanese whaling fleet's
factory vessel, the Nisshin Maru, which was confronted close to the
ice edge. As soon as they realised that we were in the area, the
whalers put on speed and tried to get away.
After a high speed chase
over hundreds of miles through fog and increasingly rough seas (see video
clip below), the Esperanza this morning pursued the whalers north
of the over the 60 degrees latitude mark - out of the Southern Ocean
hunting grounds. The catcher vessel Yushin Maru also followed
suit.
Posted by jossc — 10 March 2007 at 3:56pm
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MY Esperanza arrives in Sydney, Australia
We're taking our anti-whaling campaign to Japan, where the government plans to increase its whaling activities despite opposition from two-thirds of the Japanese public.
Posted by jossc — 9 January 2007 at 1:38pm
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Ace underwater photographer and videographer Gavin Newman has been a regular guest onboard our ship the Esperanza as it travelled the globe in 2006 "Defending Our Oceans ". Gavin has put together some of his favorite images and talks about his experiences over the last year in this flash piece: From behind the lens: Defending Our Oceans in 2006.
Las Palmas, March 12th 2006: Greenpeace activists have gone aboard an illegal cargo vessel full of fish taken from Guinean waters. Greenpeace and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) have been following the Binar 4 for the last six days from West Africa to Europe and the activists will continue to "police" the vessel until Spanish authorities confiscate its illegal cargo. While the ship was waiting to enter port it was branded a pirate with the slogan "Stolen Fish" painted five times across both sides of the hull.
Madrid, Spain, 10th March 2006: As a pirate fishing vessel loaded with fish stolen from West Africa makes its way towards Las Palmas, Greenpeace and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) this morning presented evidence to the Fisheries Ministry in Madrid, outlining why the authorities should ban the ship from the port when it arrives - in two or three days time.
London 17 January 2006 - Greenpeace welcomed today, on its global day of action to save the whales, a call submitted by 17 governments to the Government of Japan to "cease its lethal scientific research on whales and assure the return of the vessels" from the Southern Ocean whale Sanctuary. (1)
