TORONTO, May 2 (UPI) -- Broadcaster, author and journalist Bob Hunter, co-founder of the environmental group Greenpeace, died in Toronto of prostate cancer at age 63.
In 1971, Hunter and other environmentalists sailed a rusty 80-foot boat, from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Alaska in a bid to stop nuclear weapons testing on Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands -- this group then founded Greenpeace, the Canadian Broadcast Corp. reported Monday.
As president of Greenpeace he drew public attention to the hunting of whales and seals as well as the pollution of the world's oceans.
He created the term "Rainbow Warriors" to describe Greenpeace activists, the BBC said.
In the late 1980s, he left the environmental group and returned to his journalistic roots, writing books, working as a TV reporter in Toronto, and making documentaries including one on prostate cancer.
He became known for a TV segment called "Paper Cuts" based in Toronto in which he commented on the day's newspaper headlines clad in a bathrobe.
He is survived by a wife and three children.
