These photographs
were taken as part of a 2 month long Greenpeace
International expedition aboard the MV Arctic
Sunrise to the Southern Ocean, in December
2001/January 2002, to monitor, document and
protest against the killing of more than 400
Antarctic Minke whales , under the guise of
'scientific research', by the Japanese whaling
fleet. The whaling fleet comprises of a research
vessel, 3 catcher ships and one factory ship.
Commercial whaling is banned
under the International Whaling Commission
Moratorium of 1985. The whaling bodies of
Japan claim they hunt whales for 'scientific'
reasons, yet the body for which this "research"
is being done, the International Whaling Commission
(IWC), does not need the data, and has called
for the programme to be ended.
