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Category: Science Discovery Environment |
July 10 2007 at 12:55AM
Madrid - The Spanish branch of Greenpeace said on Monday its Rainbow Warrior vessel had docked on Spain's Mediterranean coast overnight to study the coastline amid warnings over diminishing red tuna stocks.
"We cannot continue with the destruction of the Mediterranean's ecosystems, overfishing and the systematic concreting over of the coastline," the environmental group said in a statement.
"It is time for the politicians to take protective measures, time is running short," executive director Juan Lopez de Uralde said.
Rainbow Warrior is due to examine how "massive construction, overfishing pollution and climate change have destroyed a sea of which just one percent is protected", Greenpeace said, adding the vessel was in port at Sagunto, just north of Valencia and would stay in the region several weeks.
The organisation is in the midst of a public
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