Listen to Bunny speak out about the significance of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

Bunny Mcdiarmid

"Once you've seen the effects of nuclear testing with your own eyes you can't pretend it doesn't exist - you've got to do something about it."

Bunny, now 48, lives on Waiheke Island, near Auckland, New Zealand, with her partner and fellow Rainbow Warrior crewmember Henk Haazen, and their 17-year-old daughter, Ruby. Together they are shareholders in the Awaawaroa eco-village, along with another Rainbow Warrior crewmember, Hanne Sorrenson, and 30 others. Bunny currently works for Greenpeace International, running its campaign for a high seas moratorium on deep-sea trawling from the organisation's Auckland headquarters in leafy Mt Eden.

After the bombing in 1985 she sailed to Moruroa as cook aboard the Greenpeace and spent three months living with Henk in the Marshall Islands with the Rongelap people who had resettled there. She co-founded Greenpeace's Pacific campaign in 1987 and continued to work on the campaign against French nuclear testing until the last test in 1996. She moved the Greenpeace Pacific campaign office from Auckland to Fiji in 1994, where she lived until 1998.

After fourteen years with Greenpeace she took a break and sailed to Antarctica with Henk and Ruby in 1999. They then built their own house at Awaawaroa out of mudbrick and recycled timber. She returned to the Greenpeace fold in 2001,  facilitating Greenpeace International meetings and as Campaign Director of Greenpeace New Zealand, until taking on her new role with the organisation's oceans campaign in 2004.

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