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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 >>
PNG: Greenpeace launches station to protect forest
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 28, 2006: Greenpeace today launched a major initiative to help protect Asia Pacific's last remaining ancient rainforests - the so-called 'Paradise Forests' (1) - by unveiling its Global Forest Rescue Station ... More >>
Justice for environment: French Govt & Clemenceau
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 4:56 pm | Greenpeace
Paris -- Greenpeace today celebrated President Jacques Chirac’s decision to call back the decommissioned toxic aircraft carrier, the Clemenceau, to France from its journey to the ship-breaking yards in Alang, India. More >>
Greenpeace wins World Press Photo awards
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 1:54 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace International has won two prizes at the prestigious World Press Photo awards for images depicting the drought in the Amazon last year and the lingering effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. More >>
Devil In The Detail On Bottom Trawling Ban
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 10:58 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
*Tuesday 14 February 2006:* Greenpeace said today’s announcement that areas would be closed to bottom trawling showed that both the fishing industry and Government acknowledge the need to protect deep-sea life from the destruction caused by bottom ... More >>
Greenpeace dismisses WTO ruling on Europe & GMOs
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:51 pm | Greenpeace
Brussels - Greenpeace tonight dismissed as irrelevant a WTO ruling that reportedly backs the US, Canada and Argentina in their efforts to force Europe to accept genetically modified organisms (GMOs); according to first press reports, the WTO decided that ... More >>
IAEA decision brings Iran crisis closer to brink
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 3:39 pm | Greenpeace
Vienna - The International Atomic Energy Agency's decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council will seriously increase the risk of escalating tensions in the region, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Russia tries to muzzle its own experts: Greenpeace
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 9:38 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace protests as Russia tries to muzzle its own experts on environmental impact of plan to build world's biggest oil pipeline More >>
Greenpeace welcomes Happy Valley Occupation
Friday, 27 January 2006, 11:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
*Auckland: Friday 27 January 2006: *Greenpeace today applauded the initiative of the Save Happy Valley campaign to begin an occupation of the proposed Happy Valley coal mine site on Saturday, as part of their campaign to stop the project. More >>
Findus fires fishy suppliers
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 4:33 pm | Greenpeace
Sweden — In a show of consumer power, Scandinavian frozen food giant Findus has agreed to stop selling illegally caught fish. The people at Findus immediately responded when their company's dealings with pirate fisheries were exposed on Swedish national ... More >>
Whaling battle shifts from seas to supermarket
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 4:31 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney: Greenpeace will leave the Southern Ocean today and will take the battle to stop whaling from the high seas to the supermarket shelves around the world. More >>
