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Indigenous Pacific activists protest deep-sea mining

MARTIN KATZ / GREENPEACE 
                                Greenpeace International activists peacefully confronted the U.K. Royal Research Ship James Cook in Eastern Pacific waters as it returned from a seven-week-long expedition to a section of the Pacific Ocean targeted for deep-sea mining. Two Maori Indigenous activists swim in front of the RRS James Cook holding a Maori flag and a flag reading, “Don’t Mine the Moana.”

MARTIN KATZ / GREENPEACE

Greenpeace International activists peacefully confronted the U.K. Royal Research Ship James Cook in Eastern Pacific waters as it returned from a seven-week-long expedition to a section of the Pacific Ocean targeted for deep-sea mining. Two Maori Indigenous activists swim in front of the RRS James Cook holding a Maori flag and a flag reading, “Don’t Mine the Moana.”