Crew members of the Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza, put a boulder into place on a ramp, The giant stone will then be dropped into the North Sea as part of a new bottom trawler exclusion zone in the Dogger Bank Marine Protected Area. The initiative will help prevent destructive bottom trawling which destroys the Dogger Bank’s protected seabed.
Photograph: Greenpeace/Suzanne Plunkett 2020