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Greenpeace Activists Fined for Damaging Coral Reef
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Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005
Greenpeace sailed to a world heritage site in the southern Philippines to
raise awareness about climate change on Monday - and struck a submerged coral
reef, damaging its ship.
The activist group has agreed to pay a fine of almost $7,000 after its
flagship, the Rainbow Warrior II, hit the reef at the Tubbataha national
marine park in the Sulu Sea.
Greenpeace representative Red Constantino blamed the "regrettable incident"
on inaccurate government maritime charts.
But he said the group nonetheless felt responsible, and would pay the fine
for damages as assessed by marine park rangers it had notified about the
accident.
The group said in a statement it was in the area to document "the potential
impacts of global warming on coral reefs in a world heritage site."
