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Rainbow Warrior exposes Papuan forest destruction
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 10:43 am | Greenpeace
Sorong, Papua, Indonesia, Tuesday April 11, 2006: Greenpeace activists today discovered a consignment of plywood from some of the world's most endangered forests in Indonesia where at least 76% of logging is illegal[1]. More >>
McDonald's linked to Amazon destruction
Friday, 7 April 2006, 11:59 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace investigation links fast food giants to Amazon destruction Campaign launched to hold McDonald's accountable More >>
European GMO Conference: A Missed Opportunity
Friday, 7 April 2006, 10:28 am | Greenpeace
Vienna - Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have today warned that Europe's food and farming will be widely contaminated if genetically modified crops are grown in Europe. The warning came at the end of a European Commission conference which failed ... More >>
GE Contamination in Spain: a warning for Europe
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 9:05 am | Greenpeace
Vienna, 4 April 2006--The spiralling uptake of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in Spain is causing massive genetic contamination, threatens the livelihood of farmers and urgently needs to be suspended, says Greenpeace. In a new report More >>
Busted in Brazil: Environmental Crimes
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:11 pm | Greenpeace
International — A land-grabber who has destroyed untold swaths of forest in the Amazon and a Swiss multinational illegally growing genetically engineered crops near a protected nature reserve. Both targeted by Greenpeace, both now facing action by the government ... More >>
The Numbers Game: Forest Destruction
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:08 pm | Greenpeace
International — Imagine a football pitch as you've seen it many times. It's a bit less than one hectare in area. Now imagine that same football pitch packed end-to-end with a pile of wood around twice the height of Mt. Everest. That's the amount of ... More >>
UN to drop nuclear bombshell: Sensational leak
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:05 pm | Greenpeace
Vienna, Austria — A sensational leaked document obtained today by Greenpeace reveals that the head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is considering realigning the agency's mission from promoting nuclear power towards renewable energy. More >>
Greenpeace calls the Earth Summit a failure
Monday, 3 April 2006, 9:34 am | Greenpeace
As the two-week long world summit on biodiversity drew to a close, Greenpeace described the outcome as major failure - a missed opportunity to stop the global loss of life in the world's forests and oceans. More >>
Warning to Pacific: Unmasking pirates in Oceans
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 10:06 pm | Greenpeace
Guinea: As new evidence emerges of fish being stolen from one of the poorest regions of the world, Greenpeace Australia Pacific Oceans Team Leader Nilesh Goundar has called on Pacific Island Countries to close their ports to pirate fishing boats, ... More >>
China's pivotal role in laundering illegal timber
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:51 am | Greenpeace
Beijing, March 28, 2006 -- China is central to the laundering of illegal timber from some of the world's most endangered forests, according to a new investigative report by Greenpeace. The trade is driven by domestic and international demand in the USA, ... More >>
Terminator rejection - a victory for the people
Monday, 27 March 2006, 10:29 am | Greenpeace
Curitiba, Brazil, March 24, 2006--A broad coalition of peasant farmers, indigenous peoples and civil society today celebrated the firm rejection of efforts to undermine the global moratorium on Terminator technologies - genetically engineered sterile ... More >>
Protests at NZ proposal to lift Terminator ban
Friday, 24 March 2006, 5:21 pm | Greenpeace
New Delhi-24 March 2006 — Greenpeace activists and Indian farmer organisations protested in front of the New Zealand Embassy in New Delhi this morning, with a banner exhorting New Zealand to ‘Keep the Ban on Terminator Seeds’. The protestors also distributed ... More >>
Greenpeace challenges Govt's take on Terminator
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 3:35 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today questioned the Government's take on what its policy on Terminator technology actually means. The sterile seed technology is the central point in discussions at an international meeting in Brazil today, and New Zealand, with Canada and Australia, ... More >>
CBD must maintain moratorium on Terminator tech.
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:56 am | Greenpeace
Curitiba, Wednesday, March 22, 2006- Greenpeace today called upon the 188 states at the 8th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to maintain the moratorium on the field trials and commercial releases of Terminator seed technology ... More >>
Greenpeace Reaction to Syngenta fine
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:54 am | Greenpeace
Geneva, Wednesday, March 23, 2006--Greenpeace today welcomed the decision of the Brazilian Environment Protection Agency IBAMA to fine Swiss Agro-Biotech multinational Syngenta one million reais (386 000 euros) for conducting illegal field trials of ... More >>
Satellites show forests critical at Earth Summit
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 1:45 pm | Greenpeace
Curitiba, Brazil, 22 March, 2006: Groundbreaking satellite maps reveal the world's forests are in critical condition, Greenpeace revealed today, at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Brazil. They include maps of the last large intact ... More >>
World Heritage sites threatened by Bush ignorance
Monday, 20 March 2006, 10:17 am | Greenpeace
Paris, 17 March 2006 - "Ignore the Bush Administration's apparent reckless intent to ravage the planet," says Greenpeace today as experts attend an urgently convened meeting on World Heritage and climate change. Greenpeace called on the experts to ... More >>
Greenpeace into Papua to protect rainforest ‘Eden’
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 9:45 am | Greenpeace
Jayapura, Papua , 14 March, 2006: The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, sailed into the Indonesian province of Papua for the first time today as part of a global campaign to help protect the world’s last ancient forests. Greenpeace is on a mission ... More >>
First contamination report: worldwide spread of GE
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 9:37 am | Greenpeace
The first report into the extent to which genetically engineered organisms have 'leaked' into the environment - released today - reveals a disturbing picture of widespread contamination, illegal planting and negative agricultural side effects. More >>
Fishing Competition at Risk from Coal Plant
Friday, 3 March 2006, 1:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
As the biggest fishing competition in Australasia gets underway at Bream Bay, Whangarei, this weekend, Greenpeace warned the location could be under threat if the Marsden B coal-fired power station goes ahead. More >>
