Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Australia
HOBART, Australia — Two Greenpeace members dressed as penguins were arrested with a third activist Monday as they staged a protest while a French ship loaded equipment for an Antarctic airstrip that environmentalists say will threaten penguin colonies.
Police charged the three with trespassing and damage to property, the environmentalist group said.
Greenpeace said the protest was intended to prevent equipment from being shipped to the French Antarctic station at Dumont d’Urville for construction of a 1,100-yard airstrip. Greenpeace claims that the construction work blocks access by penguins to breeding grounds.
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