The environmental group Greenpeace announced today that one of its ships was intercepted a Japanese whaling fleet in the South Pacific and is following.
" If you stop to hunt whales, then intervene," he told Reuters the head of Greenpeace Australia Steve Shallhorn. Explaining that the fleet of six Japanese whaling is followed by the Greenpeace ship Esperanza.
"As long as the heel, will not hunt. It 'a kind of marathon that is the course there, "he added Shallhorn.
The Japanese whaling fleet plans to hunt nearly a thousand other whales for research over the Antarctic summer, and has recently given up the hunt for another 50 different specimens after international condemnation and a formal diplomatic protest from 31 countries
Greenpeace has been trying for ten days and the fleet was intercepted in the early hours of today.
On its website, Greenpeace said its activists are ready to intervene with inflatable boats between the harpoons and whales if the hunters begin hunting.
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