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Matilda May Pilacapio: a true inspiration
Here in the Greenpeace Port Morseby compound, amongst the mango trees, is one of the more seasoned and inspiring activists I’ve ever met. Matilda May Pilacapio. Matilda has been an activist and campaigner for over 30 years. She was duly elected the first female provincial member of assembly for the southern region of PNG.…
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Greenpeace ship joins remote protest against largest land grab in PNG history
Press release – 22 October, 2011Hundreds of landowners converge to save their stolen forestsPapua New Guinea, Sunday 23 October 2011: At the request of landowners from the Pomio district in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Greenpeace’s largest ship, the Esperanza, is protesting the export of illegally logged timber bound for China. Five district Task Force policemen…
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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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Mermaid and the fish that got away
It was a busy day for the crew of the Esperanza yesterday – a mermaid, a Taiwanese longliner, and a marlin in distress. Blogpost by Steve Connolly, webbie on board the Espy – 12/10/2011 During early morning helicopter operations we spotted yet another Taiwanese longliner – the San Shen Shiang No.868. We made contact…
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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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Deni celebrate their forest homeland in the Brazilian Amazon
September 11, 2001 was not only a day of major tragedy in the US, which changed the world we are living in, it was also a day of hope for the Deni. The Deni are an indigenous group living in semi-isolation in a very remote part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, whose land at that…
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The Esperanza back in the Pacific
How about this for great timing? The Esperanza has arrived in the Pacific – the same ocean where Greenpeace started its first campaign – just in time for our 40th anniversary later this month. Blogpost by Phil Crawford (Comms officer on the Espy) In 1971 we were protesting against nuclear testing in the Pacific. In…
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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.