Greenpeace hounds Japan over whale deaths

Environmental group Greenpeace said today that it would continue hounding Japan’s whaling fleet despite a damaging collision between the whalers and a protest ship.

“No amount of bullying or intimidation will prevent us from defending the whales nor from broadcasting images of the kills to the world,” Shane Rattenbury, leader of a Greenpeace protest group that has been harassing Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters southwest of Australia, said in a message posted on the group’s Web site.