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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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Fate of Orangutan and Sumatran Tiger hopeful
Monday, 11 October 2004, 11:55 am | Greenpeace
Bangkok — Greenpeace welcomes the decision of the world’s governments to take stricter measures to control the widespread criminal trade in ramin timber from the endangered habitat of the Orang-utan and the Sumatran Tiger. Given the high volume of illegal ... More >>
USA's nuke deadly cargo travels across France
Friday, 8 October 2004, 10:40 am | Greenpeace
Cadarache, France, 7 October 2004 - Five Greenpeace climbers have hung a 10x10m "Stop Plutonium" banner just above the entrance of the Mirabeau Tunnel - five kilometres from Cadarache - where a shipment of U.S. plutonium is due to arrive later today. ... More >>
US plutonium shipment arrives in France
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 9:10 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, 6 October 2004 - Despite growing public and political concern about nuclear proliferation, one of two lightly armed UK-flagged commercial nuclear cargo ship - Pacific Pintail - arrived in Cherbourg today. French nuclear company ... More >>
DOW – Sort Deadly Legacy Now
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 8:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today said DOW needs to be held accountable and accept full responsibility for the health effects it has caused to the Vietnam veterans and their children. More >>
Sort Deadly Legacy Now
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 3:48 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 6-Oct-2004 – Greenpeace today said DOW need to be held accountable and accept full responsibility for the health effects it has caused to the Vietnam veterans and their children. More >>
Hidden Depths & Dangers In Earth's Last Wilderness
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 2:58 pm | Greenpeace
London, 5th October 2004: The destruction of ancient marine ecosystems, giant squid, snot eels, the possible extinction of species and whole habitats crushed under giant machinery - not the latest science fiction movie, but scientific fact. More >>
Activists block road to be used by US nuke convoy
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 9:46 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, October 5th 2004 - Greenpeace activists today blocked the road to be used for transporting 140 kilograms of U.S. weapons plutonium after its imminent arrival in France. A truck was bolted and secured to the main road (D901) between ... More >>
Call For UN Action On Bottom Trawling
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 12:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, Wednesday 6 October: The New Zealand Government took the lead on driftnet fishing and should step forward and do the same with high seas bottom trawling, environmentalists said today. More >>
Nuclear industry attempt to ban Greenpeace protest
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 9:19 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, 4 October 2004 - Greenpeace has been summoned to appear in the Cherbourg Court tomorrow, where it will face a request by Areva, through its subsidiary Cogema, and British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), for an injunction preventing it from ... More >>
Greenpeace NZ Heralds Russia Ratifying Kyoto
Friday, 1 October 2004, 10:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: Greenpeace today heralded the news that the Russian Government has given the green light to the climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (1), as a major step forward, but warned that New Zealand needed to take the issue more seriously. More >>
Russia gives green light to climate change treaty
Friday, 1 October 2004, 9:06 am | Greenpeace
Moscow 30th September 2004: Greenpeace welcomed the news that the Russian Government has given the green light to the climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol today (1). More >>
Greenpeace Ship in France Ahead of U.S. Plutonium
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 8:58 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, Normandy, France, 27 September 2004 - The Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza has arrived at the French port of Cherbourg, where it will await the arrival of a weapons-grade plutonium shipment from the United States (1). The Esperanza will support ... More >>
Greenpeace concerned by bottom trawling
Monday, 27 September 2004, 10:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: Greenpeace is today concerned that the New Zealand Government has been co-opted by the fishing industry into a weak "case by case" approach to deal with the greatest threat to life in the deep sea: bottom trawling. More >>
Greenpeace Applaud Biosafety Protocol Ratification
Friday, 24 September 2004, 9:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace applauds the NZ Government´s decision to ratify the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety. The Biosafety Protocol is an historic achievement whereby, for the first time under international law, there is an explicit requirement that countries ... More >>
DOW's has hidden collection in Paris fashion fair
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 9:02 am | Greenpeace
Paris, 21 September 2004 - Greenpeace displayed pictures of the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster-Bhopal- at the opening of an international textile exhibition in Paris, where DOW Chemical, the entity responsible for the 1984 disaster presented ... More >>
Greenpeace Protest Agaist Nuke Shipment In France
Friday, 17 September 2004, 8:42 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, 16 September 2004 - Greenpeace activists today entered the military arsenal in the port of Cherbourg, Normandy to protest a planned U.S. shipment of plutonium later this month. The activists, arriving in canoes, hung a 'Stop Plutonium' ... More >>
Rimbunan Hijau Threatens To Sue Greenpeace
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam/Sydney. 15 September 2004-Greenpeace, one of the world's leading environmental organisations, has received a letter from the lawyers of one of the world's largest and richest retailers in forest destruction, Rimbunan Hijau (RH). The Malaysian multinational ... More >>
Sth Korean Nuke Tests Helped by US & Russia
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 8:27 am | Greenpeace
Seoul, September 13, 2004 - As new evidence reveals that uranium enrichment experiments in South Korea have been assisted by laboratories in the United States and Russia, Greenpeace is calling for an immediate end to international collaboration on plutonium ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands Halt to Nuke Shipments
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 8:44 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace demands halt to U.S. nuclear shipment plans after plutonium contamination accident in France More >>
Dow’s Claims “Plain Wrong”
Friday, 10 September 2004, 3:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 10-Sep-2004 – The claim made by Dow Agrosciences that the dioxin levels detected in Paritutu residents are not high enough to be harmful is plain wrong, Greenpeace said today. The company also has a history of avoiding liability across ... More >>
