Greenpeace has launched today, Tuesday, January 17, a Global Day of Action against whaling that will mobilize thousands of people from Spain, Holland, India, Japan or Germany against whaling. The environmental organization has launched an Internet campaign in which all citizens can become “Defenders of the Oceans”, cyberact against the companies that finance whaling, participate in all the activities that Greenpeace promotes to save the oceans, or communicate with politicians, companies or consumers to stop the destruction to which our oceans are exposed.

In Europe, Greenpeace has addressed Nissui Europe demanding that it stop whaling and on this Global Day of Action, the international environmental organization asks all its supporters to join this petition. Nissui Suisan Kaisha Ltd is one of the main owners of the Japanese whaling fleet. It is also Japan’s second-largest seafood company and has subsidiaries around the world.

This action is another step in Greenpeace’s campaign against whaling, which is already beginning to bear fruit. Due to the continuous actions between harpoons and whales, Japan is expected to be unable to reach the cetacean quota they had proposed as part of their “scientific hunting” program. Still, since the hunt began, dozens of minke whales have fallen under the harpoons of Japanese ships.

Two Greenpeace ships, the Esperanza and the Arctic Sunrise, set sail from Cape Town (South Africa) on November 20, 2005 to defend the Antarctic Whaling Sanctuary. Since December 21, activists have been standing between harpoons and whales. 57 people from 20 countries (including Spain) live together on the two Greenpeace ships at the Antarctic Whaling Sanctuary.