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Written by Pinky Bean

And the award for busiest activists goes to...

Posted by Pinky Bean on April 23, 2008 4:02 PM Filed Under: Life

It's not clear if the members of Greenpeace actually take time for the menial tasks in life like eating and sleeping. It seems they're far too busy launching campaigns against Dove, protesting airport growth and whaling activities and producing humorous commercials with a serious message to even bother hitting the hay or sitting long for a homemade meal.

Now the activists have set their sites on tuna fishers in the Pacific ocean. They claim their protest isn't violent, however it has certainly been aggressive, with members of the group boarding fishing boats from South Korea, Taiwan and the U.S. Greenpeace also says they have been able to confiscate some of the machinery used by the fishers to increase the size of the catch.

The protests stem from the decreasing population of tuna and the warning from scientists that the ocean is unable to support the growing demand for the fish. Earlier this year, Greenpeace targeted Japanese whalers, which included members of their group being held by whalers after the activists willingly climbed aboard the harpoon. The whalers returned to their country earlier this month with less than half of the number of whales they had estimated.

Greenpeace is taking issue with the fact that tuna fishing in the Pacific is not well regulated, calling the activity "legal and illicit plundering."

 

» Times Online

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