Greenpeace frees ocean life from Pacific longliner

An endangered olive ridley turtle rescued by Greenpeace from a Taiwanese longliner.

Greenpeace activists free an endangered Olive Ridley turtle from a hook of the controversial Taiwanese longliner, Ho Tsai Fa 18, in the Pacific Ocean, 03 May 2008. Greenpeace wants this area of the high seas to become part of the first marine reserves in international waters. Greenpeace/Paul Hilton