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Greenpeace Protests Against Oil Drilling in Whale Sanctuary For more news and videos visit ? english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ? http Add us on Facebook ? facebook.com Greenpeace activists in Brazil dress up as whales to protest against the French oil company, Perenco. The demonstrators are calling on Perenco to support a moratorium on drilling near the South Atlantic's largest coral reef. Greenpeace activists held a protest outside the Brazilian unit of the French oil company Perenco, in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. [Leandra Goncalves, Greenpeace Energy Campaign Coordinator]: "Greenpeace is staging a protest here in the Rio Sul building in Rio de Janeiro to demand that the oil and gas company Perenco support a moratorium on oil drilling in the Abrolhos Bank, an area where humpback whales breed and the largest area of coral reef of the Southern Atlantic." The Abrolhos Bank reef in Brazil's northeast has been chosen by nearly ten thousand whales as a breeding ground. Greenpeace says that the drilling units in the region will weigh down on the breeding of these humpback whales, a species that were driven close to extinction and are now making a comeback. It is also the breeding season for them right now. The demonstrators dressed as whales and sprayed black paint on the costumes to illustrate the whales' situation, calling for an end to the oil drilling. Currently, Perenco and nine other oil companies such as Petrobas, Shell, and Repsol, are licensed to explore for oil in the Abrolhos region. Greenpeace has sent a letter with ... From: NTDTV Views: 156 4 ratings Time: 01:47 More in News & Politics