Ross Sea, Southern Ocean. The MY Esperanza in the foreground of the disabled Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru, a re-fuelling vessel and a hunter vessel tied alongside it. Fire broke out on the Nisshin Maru last Thursday and one man is still...

A Greenpeace activist giving Valentines day cards and flowers to a Japanese tourist arriving in Auckland.

Southern Ocean whaling expedition leader Karli Thomas from New Zealand aboard the Esperanza in Auckland, New Zealand before departing.

Most of New Zealand is submerged and forms deep-sea plateaus, volcanoes and mountain ranges, commonly known as seamounts.

Auckland, New Zealand - The MV Esperanza departed Auckland today for the Southern Ocean to once again attempt to shield the whales from the whaler's harpoons and show the world the reality of whaling that is taking place under the guise of...

Auckland, New Zealand: The MV Esperanza departed Auckland today for the Southern Ocean to once again attempt to shield the whales from the whaler's harpoons and show the world the reality of whaling that is taking place under the guise of...

The ocean holds more threats for whales than just whaling.

You can help save me.

ON Valentines day Greenpeace activists presented RFMO meeting delegates at Te Papa in Wellington with a rose and a poem each. The poem: Roses are red, The High Seas are blue, Implement strong interim measures and The world will love you.

Southern Ocean: The Yushin Maru catcher ship of the Japanese whaling fleet injures a whale with its first harpoon attempt, and takes a further three harpoon shots before finally killing the badly injured fleeing whale. Finally they drowned the...

12-06-2005, West Norfolk Ridge, Tasman Sea: Crew on New Zealand bottom trawler Waipori wrestle with a large piece of 400 year old Paragorgia coral hauled up from the deep-sea.

Greenpeace encounter Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean and attempt to disrupt the whaling operation.

Greenpeace encounter Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean and attempt to disrupt the whaling operation. Greenpeace was using every available means to bring the hunt to an early end and make it the last time the Sanctuary is breached by...

Nelson, 30-Jul-06: Greenpeace activist Tia Taurere attached to the mooring line of Belize-flagged Chinese high seas bottom trawler in the Port of Nelson.

A Vietnamese crew member releases a shark back into the ocean which was caught on the end of a bait line of a Korean long-liner, the 'Shin Yung 51'. Whilst fishing for tuna, sharks, turtles, dolphins and albatrosses can often end up as...

Activists on board the Rainbow Warrior exposed a ship suspected of violating Taiwanese fisheries laws, in the port of Kaoshiung, Taiwan. They projected messages onto the hull and called on the Taiwanese Fisheries Agency to investigate the...

Kaoshiung, Taiwan - Greenpeace activists today protest in front of Taiwan's Fisheries Agency (FA) calling for efficient monitoring of Taiwanese-owned vessels, The activists displayed a banner saying "Too much talk, too little action" accompanied...

TOKYO, JAPAN, 1st of April, 2007 The Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza sailed into Yokohama Bay this morning after spending 6 days drifting off the coast off Tokyo after being effectively banned by the All Japan Seamen's Union for the organisation's...

Greenpeace New Zealand oceans campaigner Karli Thomas said the Government’s support of the IWC proposal was undoing decades of conservation work by Kiwis to protect whales.

Oceans campaigner Karli Thomas gets served a plate of jellyfish as Greenpeace launches a report into New Zealand's commercial fisheries and seafood sector. Titled While Stocks Last, Supermarkets and the Future of Seafood it warns commercial...

Sad fish at the launch of the NZ Red Fish List at Kelly Tarlton's in Auckland

Greenpeace activists hold the Kanji symbol of the year, 'nise', meaning FAKE - against the hull of the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship Nisshin Maru, in the Southern Ocean.

The Japanese government whaling vessel Nisshin Maru flees from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

February 22th 2007. Ross Sea. Southern Ocean. Greenpeace activists onboard the MY Esperanza hold a banner calling for the end of whaling in Antarctica because of the unacceptable threat to whales and the pristine environment posed by the Japanese...

A Greenpeace activist giving Valentines day cards and flowers to a Japanese tourist arriving in Auckland.

Norwegian whalers flensing a minke whale.

An endangered fin whale, is brought to the harbour of Hvalfjörður, Iceland. The fin whale is the first kill by Iceland and marks the resumption to commercial whaling for the country in 2006.

Greenpeace volunteers at Muriwai beach covered themselves in 'oil' to send a strong message to the Government to stop its plans for the drilling of new deep water oil wells off New Zealand's coast.

Harold Phillips, along with 19 other Greenpeace supporters at Muriwai beach who covered themselves in 'oil' to send a strong message to the Government to stop its plans for the drilling of new deep water oil wells off New Zealand's coast.

Trevor Kaukau, who along with 19 other Greenpeace supporters at Muriwai beach covered themselves in 'oil' to send a strong message to the Government to stop its plans for the drilling of new deep water oil wells off New Zealand's coast.

Hiroshima clock, stopped at the time of the atomic bomb's explosion.

Greenpeace activists board the East Ambition