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Jiri Rezac on the Southern Ocean

Photographer Jiri Rezac's observations on board the Esperanza in the Southern Ocean as they search for the whaling fleet.


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Consignment sheet detailing, in Japanese, the contents of a 
crewmembers' personal box offloaded from the whaling factory ship 
Nisshin Maru, containing 23.5 kilograms of stolen whale meat. The 
sheet lists the contents of the box as "cardboard."

Consignment sheet detailing, in Japanese, the contents of a crewmembers' personal box offloaded from the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru, containing 23.5 kilograms of stolen whale meat. The sheet lists the contents of the box as "cardboard."

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A personal box, one of four, couriered from the Nisshin Maru factory 
whaling ship to the home address of a senior crew member, containing 
23.5kgs of stolen whale meat. The consignment sheet claims the box 
contains "cardboard." Greenpeace obtained the box following a four 
month under cover investigation into allegations of large scale theft 
of whale meat from the Japanese-Government-sponsored whaling programme 
in the southern ocean.

A personal box, one of four, couriered from the Nisshin Maru factory whaling ship to the home address of a senior crew member, containing 23.5kgs of stolen whale meat. The consignment sheet claims the box contains "cardboard." Greenpeace obtained the box following a four month under cover investigation into allegations of large scale theft of whale meat from the Japanese-Government-sponsored whaling programme in the southern ocean.

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