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Overfishing in the Pacific – on board the Esperanza
Arthur is the onboard Communication Officer for the first leg of Defending the Pacific 2011. By Arthur Dinio, Communication Officer, Greenpeace For a while I believed Japan is solely to blame for depleting tuna stocks. Now on my second expedition to the Pacific, I cant help but notice the fact that fishing vessels from Taiwan…
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The future of our oceans deserves a fair debate in Taiwan
Today, Greenpeace activists went to the Taiwan Fisheries Agency’s headquarters to demand they address the tuna overfishing crisis and be more transparent about the Agency’s budget and policy-making.
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Campaigning to save the oceans by changing European fishing
A few months ago I lived on an Australian beach with rainforest for a backyard. Why would I leave this behind to work in rainy Belgium? Because some time ago, having largely emptied their own seas, super-sized European fishing boats began plundering Pacific waters.One of the only ways to stop them is to fix the…
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Defending our Pacific with the new team in Korea
It is without a doubt that our oceans are an integral part of human survival and crucial to how Mother Nature goes about her business on a day-to-day basis and maintains. After all, 80% of all the life on Earth lies beneath the surface of our seas. Blogpost by Lagi Toribau Since joining Greenpeace, I…
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Greenpeace delegation at the CBD
Trying to save the planet can sometimes mean you have to spend hours in hot, stuffy meeting rooms listening to complex discussions that often go nowhere. © Kazuya Hokari / Greenpeace Blog from Nathalie Rey, Head of the Greenpeace delegation But this year’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in late October 2010 in Nagoya…
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Continued inaction is not an option at the CBD
Our Pacific Political Advisor Seni Nabou reports back from the first few days of meetings at the UN’s Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD), in Nagoya, Japan. As a Pacific Islander, attending these big world conferences can be overwhelming. The sheer size, grandeur, pomp, ceremony and alien language (diplo-speak) are enough to cower any sane individual…
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Whaling, Activism, and Human Rights
This will be the first blog Toru and I have written together, as up until recently our heavy bail restrictions have meant that we could not be in the same room or even talk to each other without a lawyer present. The verdict in our trial is approaching, and on Monday September 6 we will…
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Are Fish and Chips a Greater Threat to Whales than Harpoons?
One of our campaigners in New Zealand, Karli Thomas, sent me a link to a recent program from 60 minutes New Zealand. It contains some disturbing information. We know that whales face many threats beyond whaling including ship strikes, entanglement in fishing nets and the impacts of climate change. But the program contains evidence…
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Deciding the fate of the world’s tuna
Pacific tuna campaigner Duncan Williams answers some questions about the international tuna meeting he’s attending in Brisbane. You’ve come all the way from Fiji for this international meeting on tuna. What’s the meeting about and why is it so important? Kobe II is the only time that all the tuna commissions from around the world…
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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…