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CANADA:Greenpeace Co-Founder Bob Hunter Dieshttp://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/30661/story.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

CANADA: May 3, 2005

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Canadian journalist Bob Hunter, who co-founded the environmental group Greenpeace to protest US nuclear testing and helped it grow into an international crusade, died on Monday at age 63.

 

 

Hunter was a newspaper columnist in 1971 when he and a group of Vancouver activists decided to sail a rusting fishing boat they renamed "The Greenpeace" to the US nuclear testing site at Amchitka in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The boat was detained by US officials before it reached Amchitka, but the attempt to stop the testing gained wide media attention and sparked protests in Canada and the United States. Hunter became the first president of Greenpeace, and led it took on whaling and other environmental causes. "Perhaps more than anyone else, Bob Hunter invented Greenpeace," the group said in a statement on Monday. Hunter's knowledge of the media and sense of humor were critical to the group's early survival, said Patrick Moore, another Greenpeace co-founder. "I think he is responsible for turning it into a true international group," Moore told CBC Radio. Hunter, who was most recently working as a television journalist in Toronto, died after a long fight with prostate cancer.

 

 

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CANADA:Greenpeace Co-Founder Bob Hunter Dieshttp://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/30661/story.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

CANADA: May 3, 2005

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Canadian journalist Bob Hunter, who co-founded the environmental group Greenpeace to protest US nuclear testing and helped it grow into an international crusade, died on Monday at age 63.

 

 

Hunter was a newspaper columnist in 1971 when he and a group of Vancouver activists decided to sail a rusting fishing boat they renamed "The Greenpeace" to the US nuclear testing site at Amchitka in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The boat was detained by US officials before it reached Amchitka, but the attempt to stop the testing gained wide media attention and sparked protests in Canada and the United States. Hunter became the first president of Greenpeace, and led it took on whaling and other environmental causes. "Perhaps more than anyone else, Bob Hunter invented Greenpeace," the group said in a statement on Monday. Hunter's knowledge of the media and sense of humor were critical to the group's early survival, said Patrick Moore, another Greenpeace co-founder. "I think he is responsible for turning it into a true international group," Moore told CBC Radio. Hunter, who was most recently working as a television journalist in Toronto, died after a long fight with prostate cancer.

 

 

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