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Activists confront krill fishing vessels in Antarctic to protect penguins and whales
Their call to protect the Antarctic is backed by more than 1 million people.
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A Shaky Prospect: Seismic testing in the Great Australian Bight
‘Imagine someone operating a nail gun for three months in your kitchen and you have nowhere else to eat…. Drone footage of Bunda Cliffs in the Great Australian Bight. The Bight is a pristine stretch of ocean off the southern coastal fringe of Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria. It is a globally significant whale…
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Stars get on board to protect the strange things and fantastic beasts of the Antarctic ocean
Press release – 8 February, 2018Sydney, 9 February 2018 – ‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour and ‘Fantastic Beasts’ star Alison Sudol are on board a Greenpeace ship heading for Antarctic waters. They will help make the case for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary backed by campaigners, scientists, over 40 international celebrities and 800,000 people around the…
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How we are protecting the Antarctic
We’re working together to create something huge – an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary.
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Greenpeace submarine captures rare footage of the Antarctic seafloor ‘carpeted with life’
Press release – 23 January, 2018SYDNEY, January 24, 2018: Greenpeace International has released its first submarine footage from a part of the Antarctic seafloor never before visited by humans.The footage shows a seafloor ‘carpeted with life’ as well as ‘clear indications of a vulnerable marine ecosystem’ — strong evidence of the need for an Antarctic…
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SETTING SAIL TO PROTECT THE ANTARCTIC
As I write this the Arctic Sunrise, one of Greenpeace’s ships, is sailing south. || For the next three months its crew will be working alongside a team of campaigners, photographers, film-makers, scientists and journalists from across the globe to build the case for the world’s largest protected area: an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. The Antarctic…
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Penguins pop up across the globe in march for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary
Press release – 14 January, 2018Sydney, 15 January 2018 – As a groundbreaking expedition begins in the Antarctic, pop-up penguins have been spotted from London to Seoul, Buenos Aires to Sydney, and Johannesburg to Washington DC, marching for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. [1]The striking geometric sculptures have appeared by national landmarks across the globe, on…
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Happy World Antarctica Day
Antarctica holds 90% of the freshwater on the planet, is the biggest desert in the world, and is the only continent with no native human population. The encircling Antarctic Ocean not only provides life and living space for amazing, unique and iconic wildlife, but it also influences other oceans and wildlife thousands and thousands of…
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Greenpeace returning to the Antarctic to push for world’s largest ocean sanctuary
SYDNEY, December 1, 2017 – As a huge marine protected area in the Ross Sea comes into force on World Antarctica Day (Friday 1 December) this year, Greenpeace has announced an ambitious three-month Antarctic expedition. Between January and March 2018, the crew aboard Greenpeace’s iconic Arctic Sunrise vessel will undertake groundbreaking scientific research including a…
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Can we Create Healthy Oceans and Tackle Climate Change at the Same Time?
“We woke up to the fact that there’s ocean change just like climate change. We need ocean action like there’s climate action.” These words rang out at international climate talks last week, spoken by Peter Thompson, the UN’s special envoy for the ocean. This is just one sign that ensuring healthy oceans is fast becoming…