My favourite whale is back. Mr Splashy Pants from Greenpeace is back with a maze game, but with a serious edge. Two Japanese activists have been arrested following an exposure of a whale meat scandal and they are still being held without charge (under the Japanese 23 days rule).
To publicise this, Mr Splashy Pants is back in a maze game, challenging you to find your way to the keys to release the activists whilst keeping up the level of water in your pants. It’s a fun game with a serious edge – calling on you to sign …read more

The vote has now closed and a whale has been named Mr Splashy Pants. It may be related or not, but Japan has also stated it will not be killing humpback whales in the Antarctic this year, for their ’scientific research’, but will still be going after 1000 other whales. The campaign pressure is still needed.
As a follow-up to my original post about Mr Splashy Pants voting, I asked the Greenpeace team about the campaign and how they reacted when it became bigger than they expected. I think a quote from Martin, Communications Manager, sums it up …read more

Here’s a tale to make you smile. One of the major campaigns Greenpeace is running concerns the humpback whales, pushing to stop the Japanese ’scientific whaling’ that is planning to capture and kill 1000 minke whales, 50 humpback whales and 50 fin whales. One of the things they are doing is tracking a pod of humpback whales through the South Pacific. To get their members involved, they have been running a competition to name the whales in the pod; they received 11,000 name nominations and have whittled it down to 30 for public voting. …read more