Helena Bonham Carter has thrown her naked body behind a new campaign to raise awareness for marine life in the UK.
The actress appears nude while embracing a Bigeye Tuna in a series of photos in support of the Blue Marine Foundation.
'I am a big supporter of protecting the marine environment,' says Helena of her involvement in the campaign.
Big Fish: Helena Bonham Carter nakedly embraces a Bigeye Tuna in a series of photos in support of the Blue Marine Foundation
'I'm actually very phobic about fish so when Greta [Scacchi] asked me to be photographed naked with a 27kg tuna I was more worried about touching it than getting my kit off.
'Having said that, I conquered my fears and by the end of the morning we'd truly bonded. He will be my Valentine,' said Helena, who announced her split from director Tim Burton last December.
The Bigeye tuna is an important food fish and prized recreational game fish, belonging to the wider mackerel family Scombridae.
Campaign: Bonham Carter spoke in front of a House of Commons committee to lobby for more marine reserves - to protect fish as well as whales, turtles seabirds and penguins - in the British Overseas Territories
Single: The actress split from her long-term partner Tim Burton last December
Currently the UK has the fifth largest marine zone in the world and tuna is one of the many species that is being overfished says the charity.
Bonham Carter's involvement in the campaign began when Greta Scacchi persuaded her to take part, and on Wednesday she spoke in front of a House of Commons committee to lobby for more marine reserves - to protect fish as well as whales, turtles seabirds and penguins - in the British Overseas Territories.
'There is a new movement, spearheaded by the Blue Marine Foundation and others, encouraging the Government to invest in creating marine reserves — fish refuges really — where they are safe from the ravages of industrial-scale fishing and where they can regenerate,' Helena says.
'We all have a responsibility to try and return our world to the next generation in the state we inherited it in, not worse. It would be a sad thing if in our dotage we'd be describing a tuna fish to our grandchildren like we do a dodo today.'
Currently the Government is looking into plans to develop three of the world's largest marine reserves around the British overseas territories of Pitcairn in the Pacific, Ascension in the Atlantic, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic.
Next role: Helena plays the Fairy Godmother in the live-action Cinderella film
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