One of our youngest supporters, Martina, has a good idea and great New Year's Resolution for the captain of the Japanese whaling fleet - the Nisshin Maru.
She asks Mr Toyama to take his whaling ship back home, remove its harpoons and then return to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with tourists ready to whale watch. What a top idea!
In 2008, the Esperanza travelled up Australia's east coast to promote its Energy [R]evolution report, which showed how Australia could make a transition to renewable energy. The ship then travelled to Papua New Guinea, to document the extent of illegal logging in the region and highlight the contribution logging makes to climate change. We also launched the award-winning Origami whales online petition, a new Truefood Guide and continued to put pressure on the federal government to quit its addiction to coal.
Greenpeace launched a campaign to save the whales in 1975. Today we campaign to prevent the governments of Japan, Norway and Iceland from lifting the ban on commercial whaling. Greenpeace campaigns strategically around the world for whale sanctuaries and for viable alternatives to whaling such as whale watching.
