IWC Chairman William Hogarth opens the Whale Kingdom for the Greenpeace Ocean Defenders
This is my first blog from the International Whaling Commission - as I write, we're into the third day of the five-day meeting, at the Sheraton Hotel, in Santiago, Chile. Without trying to justify why it's taken me so long to write something, I would like to explain - despite the fact that not much has happened here so far, it's still been a pretty busy few days.
Most of the Greenpeace team arrived last week - our IWC stalwart John Frizell, Thilo on politics, Karen, the head of Oceans at Greenpeace, Leandra, our scientist, Milko, Latin American coordinator, Rob from Greenpeace Australia. Already here, of course, were the fantastic team from Greenpeace Chile, especially Sam, Melissa, Rodrigo, Luis and Sergio.
