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Greenpeace ship busts illegal tuna fishing operation in Pacific high seas, underlining urgent need for enforcement
Press release – 9 September, 2015Port Moresby, September 10, 2015 – As Pacific Islands Forum leaders consider a 10-year road map for a sustainable fisheries industry, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior has uncovered a pirate fishing operation near Papua New Guinea’s waters with 75 kilograms of illegally caught shark fins — underlining the scale of…
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Australia’s isolationist climate change stance failing Pacific neighbours
Press release – 7 September, 2015Port Moresby, 8 September 2015: The Abbott government is failing its Pacific neighbours and embarrassing itself internationally over its fossil fuel-driven, isolationist stance on climate change, the CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, David Ritter, said today.Pacific leaders yesterday published the Suva Declaration containing a call for a global moratorium on…
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Ready to hear the truth about South Pacific Albacore?
Originally published on Pina.com These are worrying times for our local tuna industry. In Fiji boats are being tied up, and staff are being laid off in Samoa, Tonga and in American Samoa where entire fleets are up for sale. Now there is talk of Starkist’s American Samoa cannery potentially losing 2,000 jobs due to…
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UNESCO draft decision: The Barrier Reef is not listed as in danger, but the threats remain
Post by Jon C. Day, James Cook University, originally appeared in The Conversation The draft decision by UNESCO and IUCN proposes not to list the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) World Heritage Area as “in danger”, but it does put Australia on notice. It requests a progress report by 1 December 2016, vowing that if “the anticipated…
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The Rainbow Warrior visits Vanuatu
It’s been a big few weeks for the Rainbow Warrior in Vanuatu. Below are some beautiful images from where she is delivering supplies to the outer Islands effected by Cyclone Pam in March. A mixture of repairs, supply deliveries and village life captured by our photographer Steven Lyon. Photo via our friends at ActionAid
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The Rainbow Warrior arrives in Tanna Island
Seeing the sun coming through my cabin’s porthole early on Wednesday morning was a very welcoming wake-up call. I knew that this meant land ahead. Captain Mike had predicted an early arrival to Tanna Island and I was more than ready for some steady ground. Unfortunately my decades of trips in the ‘tinny’ at home…
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A Warm Welcome for the Rainbow Warrior in Vanuatu
This morning I woke up in a house on the Pango peninsula, the entrance of Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, under a giant, complete and vivid rainbow. The Rainbow Warrior arrives in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Somehow the sky knew we were here, and that the Rainbow Warrior had arrived into the harbour quietly during the night.…
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The Crossing to Port Vila
Blog entry from Captain Mike on board the Rainbow Warrior. Rainbow Warrior has been transformed into a 2 TEU container ship to offer assistance to the people of Vanuatu in the aftermath of cyclone Pam. Our plan is to deliver aid from the main relief agencies in Port Vila to some of the remote islands…
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Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior brings relief to Vanuatu’s stranded islands
Press release – 15 May, 201516 May, 2015, Port Vila: Greenpeace’s flagship vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, will arrive in Vanuatu’s capital of Port Vila on Monday to help deliver relief to Vanuatu’s outlying islands, many of which are still stranded without electricity or basic living essentials.Thousands of people are still in dire need of emergency…
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8 photos that reveal the local impacts of climate change
Climate change is not a faraway nightmare. It’s real, it’s here, and it’s changing the way humans live. We’re seeing the effects all around us – polar ice melting, sea level rising and extreme weather events. On March 13 and 14, Cyclone Pam tore through the island nations of Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the…