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After 7 years, we won!
After 7 years of campaigning together, Greenpeace supporters just ended one of the most destructive fishing methods in the Australian tuna market. And here’s how we did it. Have you heard the news? Greenseas just agreed to immediately end the use of destructive fish aggregating devices (FADs) that needlessly kill countless sharks, turtles, rays…
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Major win as Greenseas goes FAD-free following public outcry
Greenpeace today welcomes the commitment by Greenseas to end their use of destructive fishing practices in sourcing their tuna, following a public outcry.
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Ogilvy and Greenpeace join forces to raise awareness of global warming
Press release – 26 April, 2017Drops of water will slow down in real time and even drip backwards for shoppers outside Pitt Street Mall in Sydney as part of an installation to raise awareness of climate change.The standing exhibit has today been erected in front of Westfield, showing a polar bear perched atop a slowly…
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5 things you can do right now to stop CommBank funding coal
Heard about the Commonwealth Bank funding more fossil fuels in 2016 than any of Australia’s big banks? Feeling outraged that CommBank is propping up the dying coal industry that is polluting our planet and destroying irreplaceable wonders like the Great Barrier Reef? Heard about the Commonwealth Bank funding more fossil fuels in 2016 than any…
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Your 2017 Canned Tuna Guide
I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent far too many hours of my life staring blankly at supermarket shelves. What did I come in here for again? Where am I? Who am I? Have you changed your tuna yet? I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent far too many hours of my life…
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Greenseas comes last in Greenpeace’s 2017 ranking of canned tuna
Press release – 13 April, 2017Greenpeace is calling on Woolworths to drop Greenseas canned tuna from its shelves, following the release of its 2017 Tuna Guide today.The Greenpeace Tuna Guide ranks the major canned tuna brands based on their environmental performance and whether the treatment of their workers respects human rights. “Greenseas is certainly not…
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Greenpeace’s Head of Pacific Net slams Australia for selling out its Pacific neighbours
Press release – 12 April, 2017“Australia – you are either with the coal industry, or with the Pacific”, said Greenpeace’s Head of Pacific Net Matisse Walkden-Brown in response to this week’s lobby trip by Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to meet the CEO of the company behind the proposed Carmichael megamine, Mr Gautam Adani."This week,…
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Australia’s politicians have betrayed the Great Barrier Reef and only the people can save it
Once upon a time, in the distant 60s and 70s, the Great Barrier Reef faced imminent destruction. Tenement applications for drilling and mining covered vast swathes of the reef, with both government and industry enthusiastically backing the plans for mass exploitation. Aerial view showing lagoon detail. Wistari Reef, Southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. In…