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A wake up call to the crisis in our oceans
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 8:34 am | Greenpeace
London, 7 December 2004 -- Greenpeace today welcomed the findings of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution’s (RCEP) investigation into the environmental effects of marine fisheries. More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Indian Action On Bhopal
Friday, 3 December 2004, 10:41 am | Greenpeace
Bhopal, India, 2 December 2004 - The people of Bhopal need action now not another survey or PR stunt Greenpeace warned today in response to the Indian Government's announcement that it is to commission a Bhopal contamination survey as a "first ... More >>
Justice Must Be Served In Bhopal
Friday, 3 December 2004, 10:34 am | Greenpeace
Bhopal, India, 2 December 2004 - Greenpeace activists around the world are remembering the world's worst industrial disaster, twenty years after a toxic gas leak killed and maimed thousands in the Indian city of Bhopal (1). Bearing candles and photos ... More >>
Groups Protest Against Dioxin at Parliament
Friday, 3 December 2004, 10:11 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Parliament, Wellington: The groups here today represent Dioxin Investigation Action Group, SWAP – Sawmill Workers Against Poisons, Vietnam Vets. Te Waka Kai Ora and by proxy all peoples of Aotearoa/NZ. More >>
General Assembly Fails To Protect Deep Sea Life
Thursday, 18 November 2004, 8:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland- 17 November 2004--Deep sea life will not get the protection it needs from the United Nations, despite calls from thousands of scientists, millions of environmentalists and numerous countries attending today’s United Nations General Assembly debate, ... More >>
United Nations fails to protect deep sea life
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 8:58 am | Greenpeace
New York, Tuesday 16th November: Deep sea life will not get the protection it needs from the United Nations today, despite calls from thousands of scientists, million of environmentalists and numerous countries attending today’s United Nations General ... More >>
KFC Customers Willing To Pay More For Non-GE Feed
Monday, 15 November 2004, 12:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 15 November 2004: Greenpeace increased pressure on the kiwi icon of fast food chicken today by releasing a poll showing that the majority of KFC customers would prefer to eat Non-GE fed chicken and would be prepared to pay more for it. More >>
No New Logging In Congolese Rainforests
Friday, 12 November 2004, 10:14 am | Greenpeace
Kinshasa / Brussels, 11 November 2004-On the eve of a major international conference (1) on the future of Congo's (DRC) rainforests, Greenpeace urges the international community to help the Congolese government protect its rainforests and the millions ... More >>
Greenpeace Image: KFC = "Kiwi For Cheapskates"
Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 2:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists at Auckland's Royal Oak KFC outlet where they were inviting KFC customers to sign postcards asking KFC to commit to sourcing chickens fed on non-GE soy. For more background see… KFC "Kiwi For Cheapskates" over GE ... More >>
KFC "Kiwi For Cheapskates" over GE soy feed
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 1:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 3 November 2004: Greenpeace today launched a new campaign demanding that the icon of fast food chicken, KFC, commit to GE free chicken feed. More >>
Alien VS. Predator
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 9:44 am | Greenpeace
Dublin, November 1st 2004: -- Alien-like species of the deep are being destroyed by EU bottom trawlers despite pledges to protect them. At a press conference in Dublin today dozens of mysterious creatures from the deep ocean, including green-eyed sharks, ... More >>
Obsolete Toxic Ship Dumping To Be Controlled
Monday, 1 November 2004, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
Geneva, Switzerland. 29 October 2004 -- The global trade in toxic ships for scrap was dealt a serious blow today in Geneva when the Basel Convention affirmed that ships can be considered toxic waste under international law and that its 163 signatories ... More >>
IEA's World Energy Outlook Runs Out Of Control
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 10:45 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today criticized the International Energy Agency (IEA) to fail to properly assess the world's energy trends for the next decades in its ''World Energy Outlook 2004'' which was presented today. More >>
Sustainable Energy Debate Well Overdue
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 5:45 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 27 October 2004: Greenpeace today welcomed the Government’s release of the Sustainable Energy Report. More >>
How Much More Evidence Does The UN Need?
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 3:41 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
North Atlantic Ocean, 26 October 2004*: Black-fleshed, luminous green-eyed sharks from the depths of the ocean lie dead on the deck of the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza, yet another example of the failure of nations to protect deep sea life. More >>
How much more evidence does the UN need?
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 9:47 am | Greenpeace
North Atlantic Ocean, 23 October 2004: Black-fleshed, luminous green-eyed sharks from the depths of the ocean lie dead on the deck of the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza, yet another example of the failure of nations to protect deep sea life. More >>
Image From Spainish Trawler Bycatch
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 1:12 pm | Greenpeace
For more background see.. E.U. fleet exposed destroying deep sea life Click for big version More >>
EU fleet exposed destroying deep sea life
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 8:49 am | Greenpeace
North Atlantic Ocean, 18 October 2004 -- The needless destruction of the high seas was exposed by Greenpeace this morning, after documenting a EU bottom trawler operating in the North Atlantic. More >>
E.U. fleet exposed destroying deep sea life
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 12:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
North Atlantic Ocean, 19 October 2004 -The needless destruction of the high seas was exposed by Greenpeace this morning, after documenting a EU bottom trawler operating in the North Atlantic. More >>
Government of Japan: Don’t empty our oceans!
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 9:11 am | Greenpeace
Bangkok - Greenpeace activists today held a peaceful demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy to demand that the government of Japan vote in favour of the conservation of marine species at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (1). More >>
