00s 2001 Greenpeace protests against nuclear shipments in France and Germany, including several actions in Germany against the first nuclear shipment to the Gorleben interim storage site to take place under the Social Democratic/Greens coalition government. These actions are part of a large protest movement in the country. Greenpeace ‘lifesavers’ demonstrate at Bondi, Australia, against new moves to increase fishing quotas for the critically-endangered Southern Bluefin tuna.
Greenpeace confronts the Fisheries Agency of Japan’s whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary established in 1994. Japan has nevertheless continued to conduct an annual whale hunt in the Sanctuary under the guise of ‘scientific’ research.
image 1 Greenpeace activists seated under umbrellas bearing the nuclear radioactive symbol © Martin Langer / Greenpeace images 2 and 3 Activists digging and planting flowers and trees on the train tracks through which shipments of nuclear material are proposed to pass © Martin Langer / Greenpeace image 4 Activists dressed as lifesavers on Bondi Beach holding cutouts of bluefin tuna © Greenpeace / Tim Cole image 5 Greenpeace inflatable in front of the Nisshin Maru, the factory ship of the Fisheries Agency of Japan’s whaling fleet © Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
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