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The Esperanza’s back in the Pacific
The sun has just set on my first day back on board the Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza. It’s been six years since I last sailed on the Esperanza for our Pacific fisheries campaign and I am glad to see how much the campaign has evolved over the years. Blog by Farah Obaidullah, oceans campaigner at…
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PNG’s governing challenges: the view from Fort Shit Scared
It may be just off the coast of North Queensland, but Papua New Guinea is metaphorically very far way from most Australians. Originally posted by Crikey, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 Arriving in Port Moresby, the distance of experience from Australia’s southern cities could hardly be greater. Physically, the city feels like it is caught mid-step…
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The Greenpeace mission has become mine, and their vision, my dream.
Usually you volunteer because you are a firm believer in the cause, but in my case, I volunteered for Greenpeace out of curiosity. I had no idea what Greenpeace does, but when I got involved, it became an insatiable want to contribute and to help. The Greenpeace mission has become mine, and their vision, my…
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Transforming Pacific Tuna for Tomorrow
The Director of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), Dr Transform Aqorau encouraged its membership to change their mindset about being wealthy custodians of a billion dollar resource and to pursue alternative models of development rather than rely on access arrangements with donors. Blogpost by Duncan Williams The PNA group is responsible for the…
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Macken sense: Fortunes, fairy tales and what real dollars could do
Having watched more Budget night speeches than is probably healthy for any woman, I have to say there is always a touch of la lunar about the whole thing. It’s like everyone on the government’s side agrees to take stupid tablets while the Opposition gets tanked on laughing gas, both sides face off and either…
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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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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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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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My Christmas wish: responsible fishing in the Pacific
Blogpost by Sari Tolvanen – December 20, 2011 at 13:31 My job as a Greenpeace oceans campaigner has sent me to lots of places in the past ten years- on land and at sea. Last month, I was in Manila, Philippines to meet with the president of Frabelle fishing corporation, one of the largest Filipino fishing companies.…
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Add your voice to the call for a genuinely historic sanctuary
Right now the Australian government is deciding the fate of Australia’s Coral Sea. The countdown is on to protect nearly one million square kilometres of unique coral reefs, atolls and underwater canyons flanking the world-heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. Blogpost by Nathaniel Pelle – December 6, 2011 Just a few weeks back I sailed out…