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Kababayan towards a more sustainable tuna fishery
Blogpost by Joan Neris, volunteer translator onboard the Esperanza on the Defending our Pacific ship tour “Arya!” shouted the captain. This word reverberated around Purple Lilac 888 as it readied itself to release its net. “Arya”, which literally means “forge ahead”, is a Philippine term used in fishing jargon to refer to the release of…
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Let’s Occupy Oceans
Blogpost by Alex Hofford, photographer on board the MY Esperanza, Defending our Pacific ship tour 2011 Currently I’m on assignment for Greenpeace as the photographer on board the ‘MY Esperanza’ as part of the ‘Defending the Pacific‘ tour 2011. I arrived at the ship from my adopted home, Hong Kong, about two weeks ago, expecting…
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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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Bad time down under for APP gets worse
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Steve Nicholson, the corporate affairs director for Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in Australia and New Zealand. Fresh from a PR crisis in Australia – caused when his staff were found out for anonymously posting offensive comments online about a Greenpeace staff member and APP’s former largest…
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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.
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The Rainbow Warrior II retires
It’s a day of mixed emotions for Greenpeace. For 22 years our ship the Rainbow Warrior II and her crew have confronted environmental destruction around the world, bearing witness and taking action to protect our planet. And today we say farewell to her. After the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior I by French government agents…