How did you come to be on this Rainbow Warrior?
I started with Greenpeace in 1999 staying on board of the German Greenpeace vessel, the Beluga, for six months as engineer. Since then I have been sailing on the Rainbow Warrior. I have been involved in a variety of campaigns - forest, oil rigs, GE-Food, No-War, ship scrapping...

Essential survival item for spending time on the Rainbow Warrior?
First, good company. Second, good books.

If you were a fish, which one would you be?
I like swimming, but the air is a more challenging medium to me.So I'd rather be a bird anyway.

Anything else you'd like to say?
Onboard we are a very international crew and I find it a pleasure to work with people from all over the world on the same issues. It is good to get together, share what we know and do something with and about it. I think it is of utmost urgency to preserve what we have left on this planet. May it be the forests, a toxic free environment or the fish and mammals in the sea - I want to protest against exploitation of this earth. We humans are so arrogant against creation we keep destroying this world in order to make profit. Still, too few people realize that without a healthy environment we are nothing.

For me it's normal to take action about environmental issues as such. But for the overwhelming amount of people in most countries, it is still a luxury to even think about it. The day will come when those people are able to think about their environment as well. Then, I will be happy.

- Beate