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Australia Heads Off NZ to Lead on Bottom Trawling
Monday, 25 September 2006, 12:58 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday 25 September 2006: Greenpeace NZ welcomes the Australian Government announcement calling for the United Nations to take measures to stop bottom trawling in international waters and says it's a shame New Zealand has been left behind. More >>
EU President implicated in Forest Crimes
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 11:10 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam – 19 September 2006: *A Greenpeace International report released today reveals how illegally logged timber from Russia is being freely imported into Finland to factories including those of Stora Enso, which is partly owned by the Finnish ... More >>
GE rice found in major German supermarket
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 11:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Unites States/International 11 September 2006 - The scandal around illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice entering European food outlets has grown today as Greenpeace tests reveal illegal rice from the US has contaminated rice on supermarket shelves ... More >>
Stop Robbing The Pacific People
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 10:38 am | Greenpeace
Sydney, Australia. September 4, 2006. Millions of dollars in fish are being transhiped from the Pacific and it is time relevant authorities take action. More >>
Fiji Islanders Lead Saving Pacific Expedition
Monday, 4 September 2006, 10:54 am | Greenpeace
Fiji Islanders Lagi Toribau, Josephine Prasad and Nilesh Goundar are the frontliners in the Pacific leg of the Defending Our Oceans (DOO) tour. Mr Toribau is is the lead campaigner onboard the M.Y Esperanza as it sails through the Pacific, highlighting ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands Global Ban On US Rice Imports
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 8:50 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 21 August 2006 - Greenpeace International today called for a global ban on imports of US rice in order to protect the public from eating illegal, untested and unapproved varieties of genetically engineered (GE) rice. More >>
Trawling Closure Areas Unscientific
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 10:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, 16 August 2006:* The New Zealand fishing industry's proposal to close some areas of the sea around New Zealand to bottom trawling does little to stop the destruction of vulnerable deep-sea life threatened by the practice, a map released ... More >>
Near-meltdown incident at Swedish nuclear reactor
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 12:32 am | Greenpeace
Sweden's nuclear regulator SKI will meet in emergency session tomorrow (3 August) to decide on a possible immediate shut-down of all but one of the country's nuclear power stations supplying up to 50% of Sweden's electricity. Greenpeace has called ... More >>
Pacific Leaders Back Bottom Trawling Ban
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 4:44 pm | Greenpeace
NEW YORK--The Presidents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands ("RMI"), the Federated States of Micronesia ("FSM"), and the Republic of Palau ("Palau") have called for a temporary moratorium on deep sea bottom trawling in the Pacific and pledged to ... More >>
Soya traders stop deforestation after pressure
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 11:54 am | Greenpeace
In a statement released in Brazil, multinational soya traders have agreed to a two year moratorium on buying soya from newly deforested land in the Amazon. This move shows that the international soya trade has been affected by the negative publicity ... More >>
Listen to Your Commissioner for the Environment
Monday, 24 July 2006, 5:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace calls on the Government to heed the recommendations from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment and to intervene immediately and stop a proposal for a coal fired burning power station – Marsden B. More >>
Attack on Environmentalists Attacks Kiwi Values
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 4:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says the attack on environmentalists by Federated Farmers is an attack on all Kiwis who value our clean and green environment. “Ultimately we all benefit from a healthy environment; where we work, live and play. More >>
Policy hole big enough to drive station through
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 12:30 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has condemned the huge hole in policies to manage New Zealand’s greenhouse gas pollution, after the Environment Court ruled against part of Greenpeace’s appeal opposing the re-firing of Marsden B power station on coal, saying that the effects ... More >>
Marine Reserves needed to protect sea's fish stock
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 8:50 am | Greenpeace
Athens, Wednesday, July 12, 2006--Greenpeace today warned that the illegal killing of scores of whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean sea will continue until Mediterranean countries get serious about enforcing a long standing ban on illegal driftnet fishing ... More >>
Blair’s Energy Review: Save the Nuclear Industry
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 8:23 am | Greenpeace
London, U.K., July 11 2006 – Greenpeace warned today that the UK Government’s Energy Review published today will neither solve Britain’s energy problems nor help meet its commitment to reduce carbon emissions. More >>
You Control Climate Change
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:59 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday 6 July 2006 – Whilst the New Zealand Government is developing a work programme for its climate change and energy policies, Greenpeace is hitting the streets with its Clean Energy Guide which ranks electricity companies according ... More >>
Greenpeace: NGO leaders take it to Putin
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:19 am | Greenpeace
Moscow, 4 July 2006 - Energy security requires an energy revolution to save the climate was the message that Greenpeace took to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with international NGO leaders at the Novo-Ogarevo presidential residence ... More >>
Cracked reactor cores have "increased risk"
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:11 am | Greenpeace
London, International July 5 2006: Nuclear power stations operated by British Energy (BE) in the UK are structurally defective and their continued operation is increasing the risk of a radioactive accident, according to documents written by the Government's ... More >>
Greenpeace International: North Korea Missile Test
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:09 am | Greenpeace
London, International, July 5 2006 -"The dormant volcano of north Asia's military ambitions can only be prevented from eruption by concerted international diplomacy coupled with long term negotiations on nuclear disarmament. More >>
NGO leaders take it to Putin
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 2:10 pm | Greenpeace
Energy security requires an energy revolution to save the climate was the message that Greenpeace took to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with international NGO leaders at the Novo-Ogarevo presidential residence outside ... More >>
