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Arctic at the Crossroads
As a small team of youth ambassadors for Greenpeace’s Arctic campaign begin their trek to the North Pole, I’m reminded of the campaign to save the Antarctic (below), which I led on behalf of Greenpeace in the 1980s. Blogpost by Kelly Rigg – April 8, 2013 While politics between the two poles are literally polar…
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Thank you times two million!
When you’re as far north as we are right now, communications come to you like telegrams; they’re few and far between, and only the most important make it through. Blogpost by Martin Norman – October 3, 2012 So when Steve, the radio operator on board the Arctic Sunrise, hand-delivered me a message today, I knew…
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Come together, to save the Arctic
1968. That was a hell of a year. The people were on the streets, revolution was in the air, we released the White Album, and perhaps the most influential photograph of all time was taken by an astronaut called William Anders. Blogpost by Sir Paul McCartney It was Christmas Eve. Anders and his mission commander…
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Opposition rising to fading whaling industry
Whale conservation has lost out to the fading, but still defiant pro-whaling forces, at this year’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting. The meeting in Panama City had initially offered the world hope that the IWC would actually help to save whales, not whalers, after the Latin American nations proposed the creation of a whale…
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KFC’s Chainsaw Colonel visits Indonesian rainforest destruction
When you think of KFC most people think of buckets of fried chicken. So what does KFC have to do with Indonesia and why did Greenpeace Indonesia take action against the company on Wednesday? Blogpost by Rusmadya Maharuddin – May 30, 2012 Well, KFC is one of the most popular fast food chains in…
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Our leaders can and should save the Pacific tuna next week
Ocean stewardship in the Pacific has come a long way. Ask a Pacific islander fifty years ago about managing fish and you would have been greeted with a look of bemusement. After all, fish back in the day were thought of as unlimited. Ask a pacific islander today about managing fish and the response will…
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New Antarctic Ocean Alliance to blaze trail for marine reserves
According to some people, 2012 is supposed to be a year of transformative events. Well I don’t know about astronomical alignments, the Mayan calendar and all that, but for us oceans campaigners, 2012 is definitely significant – for 2012 is the year by which the world’s governments should have committed to a global network of…
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Just a few days left…
Around the world, industry is encroaching further and deeper into the remaining pristine environments to operate. We’re working to protect these areas, including the precious Coral Sea. There are just a few days to have your say on what should be the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve. Where is the Coral Sea? Extending east…
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“For God’s sake look after our people”
Blogpost by Joss Garman, Greenpeace UK Staring out at the bright, open, broken plains of Arctic sea ice back in September, more than once I was struck by the thought of the early explorers who first trekked across similar icescapes at both of the frozen ends of the planet. My first time stepping down onto…
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Eyes of the Forest see through greenwash
A new investigative report reveals how Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) – the notorious Indonesian rainforest destroyer – is continuing its destruction of natural tropical forest and drainage of peat soils to make its pulp and paper products. Original blogpost by Nathan Argent – December 14, 2011 APP is the parent company of Australian-based Solaris which…