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Greenpeace in hot pursuit of whalers
— PHOTO: AFP
GUARDING THE GIANTS: Humpback whales feed near the Greenpeace ship Esperanza at the Antarctic ice edge in this January 7 file picture.
SYDNEY: A Greenpeace ship found the Japanese whaling fleet off Antarctica on Saturday, the environmental group said — setting off this year’s round of a cat-and-mouse contest that has become a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
Greenpeace’s Esperanza confronted the Japanese whalers in the Antarctic Ocean on Saturday after a 10-day search, and the hunting ships immediately steamed off with the activists in pursuit, the environmentalists said in a statement.
They warned they would take non-violent action to try to stop the ships from killing whales — a promise that in the past has led to activists in boats trying to put themselves between whales and Japanese harpoons, and once to a collision of ships. Calls to Japanese whaling officials went unanswered. The hunt is due to last until April. — AP
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