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Major Australian paper companies destroy Tiger and Orangutan habitat
Press release – 16 June, 2010Jakarta/Sydney 6 June 2010 –Major paper producers in Australia are driving Sumatran tigers and orang-utans to extinction by selling products made from the trashing of Indonesia’s rainforests, a new Greenpeace report reveals today.The report – Pulping the Planet – shows how major international companies such as KFC and Walmart are…
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Why are taxpayers paying for coal trains?
I had a cursory glance through the Queensland and New South Wales State budgets yesterday to see if there was anything interesting going on in terms of climate change. There wasn’t. New South Wales allocated around $21Million to leverage private sector investment for 6 new large scale renewable projects – but it hardly makes up for…
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Get the low-down on illegal timber
The ABC’s agenda-setting radio documentary program Background Briefing have just aired a great story about illegal timber imports in Australia. Find out all about the issue by downloading the story and listen to it on the way into work or school. Or listen on the website now. Check it out here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2010/2908767.htm Don’t forget that…
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How far would you go to help save the whales?
International human rights experts Dirk Voorhoof and Serge Gutwirth have co-authored a thought provoking article about the right to protest under threat. Check it out on the ABC Unleashed site here: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2911068.htm Professor Dirk Voorhoof recently provided testimony in the case again the Tokyo Two, our activists who risked jail time for exposing the fraud that…
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The BP Deepwater Disaster: One Month On
Greenpeace oil specialist and marine biologist Paul Horsman recently visited the Mississippi Delta to see first-hand the oil that is beginning to wash onto the shores of this delicate coastal ecosystem. Greenpeace is calling for an end to oil exploration and an end to deep-water oil drilling, so that the industry is sent a clear…
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Awesome Win For Canada’s Boreal Forest
After the Nestlé announcement last week, the good news just keeps on coming. Our Canadian colleagues are thrilled about a new, far-reaching agreement between campaign groups and logging companies that should see vast areas of the country’s boreal forest protected. After 7 years of campaigning to save the boreal forest, Greenpeace was pretty thrilled to…
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Green Pickings From The Sydney Film Festival
The Sydney Film Festival is just around the corner – 2-14 June. Now, if you’re anything like me, you find out about these things after they’ve happened and wished you had time to do some planning beforehand. Well, this year, I’ve sat down and picked out some films I want to see. While doing that,…
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NSW Gov’t Rejects Bickham Coal Mine
In what appears to be the first ever rejection of a new coal mine by the NSW Government, Premier Kristina Keneally has today rejected the proposed Bickham coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley. This is a huge win for the local community, which has been campaigning to stop this mine for the past decade…
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Can’t Take A Leak But A Coal Transfer Is OK
On Tuesday morning, stricken Chinese coal bulker, Shen Neng 1, arrived in the pristine wateres of Hervey Bay. The ship anchored in the great sandy marine park, a whale sanctuary on the edge of world heritage listed Fraser Island. On 5 April, Shen Neng 1 struck the Great Barrier Reef on Douglas Shoal, where it…
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Why I Ran Across The Sahara Desert
Michael Williams recently completed the Marathon des Sables — a 250 km run through the Sahara Desert in Morocco. It’s considered by many to be the toughest footrace in the world. The marathon is run over six stages, the longest being around 80 km, and takes contestants across challenging terrain including salt flats, mountains, dried…