Bob Hunter, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace, died yesterday of prostate cancer. Hunter, a columnist for the Vancouver Sun in the 1960s and most recently an ecology broadcaster for Canadian media, first came to prominence in 1971 with the launch of Greenpeace and its protests against nuclear testing. He brought public attention to the hunting of whales and seals, as well as the dumping of toxic waste into the oceans.
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Captain Paul Watson talks about his friend at www.Salon.com
"My lifelong friend and teacher Robert Lorne Hunter died today.
Bob Hunter was plain and simply one of the most inspiring and visionary environmentalists of our time.
He was "the" founding father of the Greenpeace Foundation."
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