The Canadian journalist and co-founder of the environmental lobby group, Greenpeace, Bob Hunter, has died aged 63.
Mr Hunter was working as a newspaper columnist in 1971 when he helped set up Greenpeace in protest against US nuclear testing.
He later became the group's first president.
Another co-founder, Patrick Moore, said that Mr Hunter's knowledge of the media was critical to the group's early survival and credited him with turning Greenpeace into a truly international organisation.
Mr Hunter subsequently returned to work in the media and was most recently employed as a television journalist in Toronto.
He died yesterday after a long battle with prostate cancer.
