Name: Babett

Position on board: Deckhand

Nationality: Germany

During the last 2 months of being here we were trying to get the new ship ready for our first campaign. It was hard work to get all the action/deck equipment and tools organised as we shifted stuff around again and again.

This is my 4th time on a Greenpeace ship. I joined a ship the first time as a volunteer in Freemantle (Western Australia) about 2 years ago - after studying at university, living in the jungle of Sumatra for a few months and working in Australia.

I actually was on my way to work as I saw the MV Arctic Sunrise and the MV Greenpeace in port of Freemantle, and went down for a visit.

After 2 weeks of working on the ships I sailed down with them to the wild Southern Ocean on a fishery campaign surrounded by penguins, whales and the gigantic Albatrosses.

Now that it's the first time I'm involved in a forest campaign/action - I remember my time in the jungle of Sumatra when the smoke of the burning forest was all over, and watching the orang-utans at the rehabilitation centre, one of the only two areas in the world where a few those amazing creatures still live in the wild.

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