EXTRA: Police remove all Greenpeace protestors from ship
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Wellington - Police removed all Greenpeace protestors from a ship carrying a controversial cargo of animal feed that environmentalists claimed was grown on land cleared of irreplaceable Indonesian rainforest after it docked at a New Zealand port Wednesday night following a day-long standoff with climate change protestors, the TV3 channel reported. It said 16 people were charged with illegally boarding a vessel.
Copyright DPA
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