International Volunteers Day is celebrated each year on the 5th of December, a great opportunity to reflect on a huge year and all the fantastic work and the continued commitment of our amazing volunteer base across Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Greenpeace was founded by volunteers over 40 years ago and our work continues to be reliant…
After decades of work, A$200 million in taxpayer funding and even more from farmers' pockets, we finally have a rare good news story to tell about the Great Barrier Reef. Thanks to an extraordinary effort, we have stopped at least 360,000 tonnes of sediment and large amounts of other agricultural run-off polluting Australia’s most famous…
Press release – 5 December, 2013Brisbane, 6 December 2013 – The largest ship in the Greenpeace fleet has been urgently directed to the Great Barrier Reef coast to investigate the damaging impacts of coal port development and climate change on the Reef.The Esperanza is currently berthed in Brisbane and will depart on Sunday for a…
The Western and Central Pacific is the world’s largest tuna fishery, with millions of people depending on it for food and their livelihoods. It is also an economic lifeline for many of our region’s small island states. But there is trouble in paradise. More and more boats are entering the fishery from developed nations eager…
Press release – 30 November, 2013Suva/Sydney, 1 December 2013 – Greenpeace activists today deployed a floating banner at a harbour in the Pacific, reading: “Fewer boats more fish WCPFC Act Now!” This message is directed at the members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), who are meeting in Cairns, Australia next week.…
Press release – 26 November, 2013Sydney, Wednesday 27 November 2013: The world’s longline tuna fisheries are out of control, rife with illegal fishing and responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of marine turtles and threatened sharks every year.These are some of the findings of a new report ‘Out of line, the global failure of tuna…
Press release – 17 November, 2013Suva, 18 November, 2013 – Comprehensive measures need to be put in place to reduce fishing capacity to save the region’s tuna fisheries, Greenpeace Australia Pacific urged in a new report launched today.In 2012 there was a record tuna catch and record number of vessels in the purse seine fishery.…
Press release – 14 November, 2013Brisbane, 15 November 2013: Greenpeace is calling on Environment Minister Greg Hunt to rule out allowing Adani to develop its T0 coal terminal in the sensitive Great Barrier Reef and their mega coal mine in the Galilee Basin after new revelations that the company is being investigated by Hunt’s department…
Press release – 12 November, 2013Wednesday 13 November, 2013: Greenpeace is accusing the Coalition of running a scorched earth policy on climate change following today’s tabling of legislation to ditch the carbon price despite having no credible alternative.“This government seems hell bent on sowing the fields of Australia with salt,” said Greenpeace Programme Director Ben…
Press release – 6 November, 2013Premier Newman announced today that Queensland tax payers would be subsidising Gina Rhinehart, Clive Palmer and two of India’s richest families.Today Premier Newman announced that his government will offer discounted royalty rates for mining companies that move ahead with their planned multibillion-dollar coal projects in the Galilee Basin, exposing the…
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