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Who knows where volunteering could take you…
Monday December 5 is International Volunteer Day – and a great opportunity to celebrate and recognise those who have helped us achieve so much by donating their time to Greenpeace. On board the MY Esperanza for the 2nd leg of the Defending our Pacific ship tour we have a number of people who are here…
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Stinking and dripping on the poop-deck!
I’ve just returned from a dive beneath a giant floating catastrophe, an ugly lump of death-dealing metal floating in the high seas. Blogpost by Nathaniel Pelle, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Oceans Campaigner No, it wasn’t a warship. This particular lump of metal was a fish aggregating device, or FAD, that we happened upon on the high…
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An activist in Durban – the climate talks begin…
Blogpost by Paul Grajewski, Greenpeace Volunteer I am in South Africa for COP17 as part of a team of Greenpeace activists and volunteers. There are about 60 of us camped out near Durban and about half of us come from all over the world – Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Belgium, USA, Canada, China myself…
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Protecting forests, traditional welcomes and leaving PNG
My name is Jamie, I work as the Online Manager in the Sydney office. I've just arrived in Port Moresby to join the MY Esperanza on the second leg of the Defending the Pacific ship tour.
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Esperanza for Pacific Oceans, Pacific People, Pacific Lives
As a Pacific Islander onboard the Greenpeace vessel, the MY Esperanza (Spanish for Hope), I cannot help but feel that there is hope despite the plight facing our magnificent Pacific Ocean. This vast oceanscape has been the bridge connecting people of Pasifika for thousands of years. Blogpost Duncan William, Oceans campaigner It is what brought…
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Nauru Comes Through
Recently the Esperanza and crew had a short stop in Nauru, a small Pacific island country between Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. Blogpost by Steve Connolly, webbie on board the Espy – 10-10-2011 Our stop here happened to come just days after Nauru called for the closure to longline fishing in the high seas…
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Bycatch. There’s a catch.
I’m here in the middle of the Western Pacific ocean with Greenpeace, onboard the Esperanza, part of the ‘Defending the Pacific’ oceans campaign. Written by Paul Hilton, Photographer on board the Esperanza The campaign objectives are to promote marine reserves and work closely with the Pacific Island nations to establish no-take zones in the international…
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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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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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Meet Una Lutuilakeba, one of our amazing Pacific volunteers
Unaisi Lutuilakeba (Una) has volunteered with Greenpeace for two years. Originally from Moce on the island of Lau, she volunteers with Greenpeace in Suva, Fiji. How did you start volunteering with Greenpeace? I started volunteering with Greenpeace after I heard about it when I joined them two years ago. What do you do? I am…