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Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.
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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 >>
Greenpeace ships depart Southern Ocean
Monday, 23 January 2006, 10:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Friday 20 January 2006: The two Greenpeace ships that have been shadowing the whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean are preparing to leave as the organisation switches the focus of the campaign to the corporates behind the commercial whaling ... More >>
Sealord - say 'no' to whaling
Friday, 20 January 2006, 11:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, January 20, 2006: Greenpeace is today launching an international campaign asking Sealord to persuade 50% shareholder company Nissui to get out of commercial whaling. Greenpeace New Zealand whales campaigner Pia Mancia said that many New Zealanders ... More >>
Harpoon knocks Greenpeace activist overboard
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 4:31 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney Sunday, 15 January, 2006 : In a dramatic incident in the Southern Ocean last night a Greenpeace activist was dragged into the sea by a harpoon rope. More >>
A victory for the whales
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 4:29 pm | Greenpeace
Argentina — Our Argentine Ocean Defenders have hit Nissui in their pockets. Nissui own about one third of Kyodo Senpaku -- the people who run the Japanese whaling fleet. Our cyberactivists have convinced a major Nissui client in Argentina not to buy from ... More >>
Families invited to help save the whales
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 8:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, January 16, 2006: Greenpeace New Zealand will mark an international day of action on whaling tomorrow (Tues) with a family beach dig in Auckland. More >>
French Asbestos carrier blocked
Friday, 13 January 2006, 4:49 pm | Greenpeace
Mediterranean — France thinks it can get away with dumping a warship containing hundreds of tonnes of toxic materials like asbestos, PCBs, lead and mercury in India. We say that's illegal toxic dumping -- so we have boarded the warship to prevent it getting ... More >>
'Coal Pact' agree: let greenhouse pollution double
Friday, 13 January 2006, 4:40 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney Thursday, 12 January, 2006 : Greenpeace today condemned the just-concluded Asia-Pacific 'Coal Pact' as a coal trade show that, far from tackling climate change, will allow greenhouse pollution to spiral out of control. More >>
Japanese Whaling ship caused collision
Friday, 13 January 2006, 4:39 pm | Greenpeace
Southern Ocean Thursday, 12 January, 2006 : In response to the posting of video footage of the Nisshin Maru/Arctic Sunrise ramming incident on the internet, Greenpeace reiterates that the larger ship was at fault. More >>
Greenpeace to 'Coal Pact': Prove how you'll reduce
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 3:17 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney Wednesday, 11 January, 2006 : US and Australian delegates attending today’s Asia-Pacific climate conference in Sydney are trying to ‘hoodwink’ the public by claiming that voluntary agreements to make coal cleaner would be all we need to tackle ... More >>
Tackle climate change and save the whales
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 3:15 pm | Greenpeace
Southern Ocean Wednesday, 11 January, 2006 : As 'Coal Pact' meetings begin in Sydney, Greenpeace whaling protesters in the Southern Ocean called on Australia and Japan to take concerted action to tackle climate change to help preserve the environment ... More >>
