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Greenpeace activists chain themselves and cover suppliers of threatened bluefin, yellowfin and bigeye tuna stands with fishing nets at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels, Belgium.

Sixty Greenpeace volunteers, many in full orang-utan costumes, are currently overrunning and occupying the Unilever factory in Port Sunlight, near Liverpool. Eight teams of activists have scaled perimeter fences, entered the plant at different points and hung a giant banner from the front entrance to the factory reading “Unilever: Stop destroying rainforests for palm oil”

Greenpeace activists take action against US tuna purse seiner Cape Finisterre, part of the overfishing problem in the Pacific.

Greenpeace activists demonstrate against tuna fishing operations in the international waters of the Pacific by deploying a banner reading "Marine Reserves Now" alongside the Korean purse seiner Olympus, 17 April 2008.

Activists from Greenpeace Japan meet the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru with a banner saying "FAILED" as it arrives in Tokyo,

More one thousand people, including many children dressed in red, form a heart around a Greenpeace inflatable whale in the center of Santiago, Chile.

Greenpeace activists place up a huge globe, marked with a nuclear sign, and display campaign photographs in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok, Thailand, where governments are currently meeting to discuss climate change for the first time after the Bali conference last December. Greenpeace reminds the Thai government that nuclear energy is a dangerous obstruction to a realistic climate solution.

Activists demand illegal whale meat aboard the Panamanian-flagged Oriental Bluebird be refused by customs. Greenpeace provided Japanese officials with documentary evidence of meat being transferred at sea from the whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean -- a violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

New Zealand police and port authorities try to remove Greenpeace climbers from the hull of Solid Energy's coal ship, the Hellenic Sea. Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior blocks the state owned enterprise Solid Energy¹s coal ship the Hellenic Sea from leaving the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand. The 225-metre bulker carries up to 60 thousand tonnes of export coal.