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If opening our pockets would mean emptying them…
With more than 7,000 islands the Philippines has a coastline longer than the United States. We are surrounded by water, in fact more than 2 million square kilometers. Original blogpost by Mark Dia, Greenpeace Phillipines A majority the Philippine population eat fish, with 80% of animal protein intake coming from the ocean. One would think that as…
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(H)appy fish
Press release – 29 March, 2012Newly released Greenpeace iPhone app puts Australian canned tuna brands under the spotlight just in time for EasterSYDNEY, 30 March 2012 : Today Greenpeace announced the release of its Canned Tuna Guide app for iPhone. The Canned Tuna Guide app sits within the popular, free of charge Sustainable Seafood Guide…
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Green light to dirty coal plant threatens to undermine Gillard’s climate credibility
Press release – 28 March, 2012Thursday, March 29:In response to the decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to approve the proposed HRL dirty coal-fired power station at full-scale, Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaigner Julien Vincent said: “This is a bizarre decision laid down today from VCAT and flies in the face of…
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Destructive tuna fishing kills whales and whale sharks
Press release – 27 March, 2012Guam/Sydney, 28 March 2012: Australian supermarkets continue to stock tuna caught using fishing methods which kill whales, Greenpeace revealed as regional leaders meet to decide the future of the world’s largest tuna fishery in the Pacific.Greenpeace is demanding governments vote to ban the setting of tuna purse-seine fishing nets on…
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Xerox: Honesty is the best policy when you are caught trading with APP
It is three weeks since we launched ‘The Ramin Paper Trail’ exposing that the logyards at APP’s main pulp mill in Indonesia are riddled with illegal ramin logs. We also released evidence showing that 11 companies, including Xerox, had rainforest fibre from APP in their products Blogpost by Andy Tait, Senior Campaign Advisor Although Indonesia’s…
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Working to keep pirates and overfishing out of my backyard
Tuna is the lifeline for many Pacific island communities – a source of income, jobs and food. That’s why, as a Pacific islander and someone who has been working on oceans conservation for over a decade, I am still very angry at the inaction of the people who are meant to be “managing” our oceans.…
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Spotlight on Newman as Bligh saves Nature Refuge from Palmer Mine
Press release – 26 March, 201223.03.12: Greenpeace today welcomed the announcement from Anna Bligh that she would protect nature refuges from mining, including the stunning Bimblebox nature refuge in the desert uplands region of central Queensland.“This is welcome act of leadership to protect some of Queensland’s natural living treasures from the devastating impacts of open-cut…
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Will brooms and shovels clean up the Arctic?
New Zealand and Finland are practically on opposite sides of the planet, and quite a long way away from Alaska. Yet, they are the two starting points for Shell’s fleet of rented and commissioned ships that are preparing to get together and start drilling for oil in the Arctic this summer. They’re not getting away…
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Did you hear the one about the CIA?
Two weeks ago I got the kind of phone call a journalist loves to make and an activist hates to take. It was a journo from The Australian Financial Review (AFR) – my old alma mater – and he began the conversation by saying, “I’ve received a document that I need to get authenticated, can…
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It’s no holiday for tuna scientists in the Pacific
Every year, Pacific Ocean fisheries experts gather to review all of the current scientific data and make recommendations to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) on what us scientists call “conservation and management measures” – measures that should protect not only the target fish species of tunas, marlins, and swordfish, but also ocean…