Greenpeace activists in Brazil dress up as whales to protest
Greenpeace activists in Brazil dress up as whales to protest against the French oil company, Perenco. The demonstrators are calling on Perenco to support a moratorium on drilling near the South Atlantic’s largest coral reef.
Greenpeace activists held a protest outside the Brazilian unit of the French oil company Perenco, in Rio de Janeiro.
The Abrolhos Bank reef in Brazil’s northeast has been chosen by nearly ten thousand whales as a breeding ground.
Greenpeace says that the drilling units in the region will weigh down on the breeding of these humpback whales, a species that were driven close to extinction and are now making a comeback. It is also the breeding season for them right now.
The demonstrators dressed as whales and sprayed black paint on the costumes to illustrate the whales’ situation, calling for an end to the oil drilling.
Currently, Perenco and nine other oil companies such as Petrobas, Shell, and Repsol, are licensed to explore for oil in the Abrolhos region.
Greenpeace has sent a letter with 12 thousand signatures to all oil firms inthe Abrolhos region, demanding that they back a moratorium on the oil drilling.
The activists said Perenco is closest to the breeding ground and still hasn’t responded to their letters.
Greenpeace is also pressuring the government to ban oil drilling near the whale sanctuary.
