Page - June 23, 2005
"Once you've seen the effects of nuclear testing with your own eyes you can't pretend it doesn't exist - you've got to do something about it."
Bunny, now 48, lives on Waiheke Island, near Auckland, New
Zealand, with her partner and fellow Rainbow Warrior
crewmember Henk Haazen, and their 17-year-old daughter, Ruby.
Together they are shareholders in the Awaawaroa eco-village, along
with another Rainbow Warrior crewmember, Hanne Sorrenson, and 30
others. Bunny currently works for Greenpeace International, running
its campaign for a high seas moratorium on deep-sea trawling from
the organization's Auckland headquarters in leafy Mt Eden.
After the bombing in 1985 she sailed to Moruroa as cook aboard
the Greenpeace
and spent three months living with Henk in the Marshall Islands
with the Rongelap people who had resettled there. She co-founded
Greenpeace's Pacific campaign in 1987 and continued to work on the
campaign against French nuclear testing until the last test in
1996. She moved the Greenpeace Pacific campaign office from
Auckland to Fiji in 1994, where she lived until 1998.
After 14 years with Greenpeace she took a break and sailed to
Antarctica with Henk and Ruby in 1999. They then built their own
house at Awaawaroa out of mudbrick and recycled timber. She
returned to the Greenpeace fold in 2001, facilitating Greenpeace
International meetings and as Campaign Director of Greenpeace New
Zealand, until taking on her new role with the organization's
oceans campaign in 2004.
Listen to
Bunny speak out about the significance of the bombing of the
Rainbow Warrior.