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Over 50 Greenpeace activists from the Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar Peninsula take action against deforestation - unfurling a 20 x 30 meter banner in a freshly destroyed area of rainforest that read ‘Obama you can stop this’, urging him to take strong leadership and work closely with other Heads of State to help avert a climate crisis by ending global deforestation, responsible for about a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.

Activists wearing “Tax” hats unveiled the whale with supporting banners reading: "Amakudai", "waste of tax", "useless public interest corporation”.

Greenpeace activists wearing Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and US President Barack Obama masks unveil a three-metre whale outside the Japanese Diet while displaying banners reading: “Yes, We can.” “Stop Research Whaling”. Greenpeace is urging the two leaders to work together to end Japan’s “research whaling”. programme.

Greenpeace activists unveiled a large whale sculpture outside the Japanese Diet, to remind both heads of state to uphold their respective election promises to end corruption and waste, as well as so-called “scientific” whaling

Greenpeace kicks up a storm of protest at UN climate talks, staging an extreme weather event for delegates arriving at the talks. This is a taste of what the future could look like if they don't create the right conditions for a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal.

Greenpeace kicks up a storm of protest at UN climate talks, staging an extreme weather event for delegates arriving at the talks. This is a taste of what the future could look like if they don't create the right conditions for a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal.

Greenpeace kicks up a storm of protest at UN climate talks, staging an extreme weather event for delegates arriving at the talks. This is a taste of what the future could look like if they don't create the right conditions for a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal.

Greenpeace activists and local community finishing constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia