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Change your food, change the world: 5 ways to bite away at your food footprint
Between production, packaging, transport and cooking, the things we eat can have a massive impact on the earth. Luckily, they’re also some of the easiest habits to change. Here are the first steps to going on an environmentally-friendly diet.
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Greenpeace and Australian tuna fishers demand urgent recovery plan for bigeye tuna
Press release – 5 August, 2014Wednesday 6 August 2014. Sydney/Marshall Islands: Shocking new assessments, tabled today at the 10th meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Scientific Committee in the Marshall Islands highlight the failure of tuna fishing nations to protect one of the world’s most important fisheries, bigeye tuna.“Greenpeace, along with…
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Celebrate! Kiribati changes its tuna and protects one of world’s largest fishing grounds
Raise your kava glass! After years of a marine protected area being falsely described as “off limits to fishing and other extractive uses” when it was actually being heavily fished, President Anote Tong of the Pacific island country of Kiribati and his government have finally voted to close the historic Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA)…
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How to catch tuna like an Islander
I just went on my most successful fishing trip ever. There wasn’t much to compare it to. The best before that was when I caught half a fish because the tail half got eaten before I reeled it in. So you can imagine how excited I was when I was recently invited to the Pacific island of…
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Survival guide to holiday parties with climate deniers
Last year, UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon said it was time to “prove wrong” those who still have doubts about climate change at the climate talks in Doha. Since it’s the festive season and you never know when you’ll wind up at the same holiday party as Donald Trump, we’ve answered Ban Ki-moon’s demand. Here…
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Countries leave Pacific tuna commission with license to overfish
Press release – 9 December, 2013Cairns, 6 December 2013 – The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission 10th meeting ended today. The discussions had been at a deadlock over conservation and management measures needed to reverse overfishing of the region’s bigeye tuna stocks. As a result, the meeting failed to take action to end overfishing…
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Enough is enough; we need to reclaim our seas and fisheries now
The Western and Central Pacific is the world’s largest tuna fishery, with millions of people depending on it for food and their livelihoods. It is also an economic lifeline for many of our region’s small island states. But there is trouble in paradise. More and more boats are entering the fishery from developed nations eager…
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Greenpeace urges Cairns tuna summit to end overfishing and control fleets
Press release – 30 November, 2013Suva/Sydney, 1 December 2013 – Greenpeace activists today deployed a floating banner at a harbour in the Pacific, reading: “Fewer boats more fish WCPFC Act Now!” This message is directed at the members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), who are meeting in Cairns, Australia next week.…
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Industrial fishing in the Pacific is out of control: Greenpeace
Press release – 17 November, 2013Suva, 18 November, 2013 – Comprehensive measures need to be put in place to reduce fishing capacity to save the region’s tuna fisheries, Greenpeace Australia Pacific urged in a new report launched today.In 2012 there was a record tuna catch and record number of vessels in the purse seine fishery.…
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When does no mean no? Government should resist pressure to lift super trawler ban
Press release – 17 September, 2013Wednesday 18 September 2013: Greenpeace and Environment Tasmania today welcomed Senator Richard Colbeck’s proposal to conduct new surveys of the Australian small pelagic fishery, but cautioned him against using this as a stepping stone to overturning the existing ban on supertrawlers.Doing so would open Australian waters to destructive fishing vessels…