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Emily Hunter, daughter of Greenpeace's founding president Robert Hunter, is a journalist and environmental activist herself. Over the past eight years, she has battled on the high seas of Antarctica to save whales; was held hostage in her attempt to protect the Galapagos Islands from illegal poaching; put a spotlight on the Canadian tar sands (the second largest oil project next to Saudi Arabia) with a TV documentary she hosted for MTV Canada; and stood on the protest frontlines at the Copenhagen climate summit. Emily was also one of the characters in “Whale Wars,” the top-rated show on Animal Planet. Currently, she works as a freelance environmental journalist, occasionally hosting and producing TV documentaries. Visit her at www.emilyhunter.ca