Greenpeace Chases Japan Whaling Fleet
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Greenpeace claimed yesterday to have driven Japan’s whaling fleet out of Antarctic hunting grounds after a 24-hour chase.
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza located the six Japanese whaling boats on Saturday after 10 days scouring the Southern Ocean.
The environmental group plans to put volunteers in boats between the whales and the whalers’ harpoon guns to disrupt attempts to kill nearly 1,000 minke and fin whales. After confronting the fleet, the Esperanza pursued the main factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, out of the hunting grounds in thick fog and rough seas.
Japan sent its whaling fleet to Antarctica in November in a “scientific” program, but campaigners claim this is a front for commercial whaling.
