Leopard Seal in Southern Ocean

A leopard seal sits on hard ice sheets at sea.
The Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza is on her route towards Antarctica through the icy reaches of the Southern Ocean. This is the end of the 14 month Defending Our Oceans expedition and this leg is focused on protecting whales from Japanese whaling fleets.

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IMAGE SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR FUNDRAISING

Unique identifier: GP0190L

Type: Image

Shoot date: 24/02/2007

Locations: International Waters, Ross Sea, Southern Ocean

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Daniel Beltrá

Size: 3504px × 2336px 3MB

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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Shoot:

Defending Our Oceans Southern Ocean Tour 2007

The Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza is on her route towards Antarctica through the icy reaches of the Southern Ocean. This is the end of the 14 month Defending Our Oceans expedition which was started by a trip to the Southern Ocean to confront the Japanese government's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. At the end of this expedition Greenpeace return to the whale sanctuary too, once again, defend the whales. Despite a moratorium on commercial whaling, the hunt for whale meat continues through the loophole of "scientific purposes".

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