Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, and 28 boats with local activists, stage a flotilla, with a large 'dugong' on top of Henoko reef where a proposed American military base would be built across important dugong habitat. With the planned construction of the airbase, dugongs, which are one of Japan's cultural icons and protected animals, are about to lose their habitat. Greenpeace is working to protect the last remaining dugong population in Japan as well as to prevent the destruction of this important marine environment.

© Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert