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Greenpeace slams Cypress coal mine approval
Monday, 21 June 2004, 3:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday 21 June, 2004, Auckland: Greenpeace today condemned the decision to give Solid Energy's Cypress coal mine the go ahead, on the west coast. More >>
Rainbow Warrior has arrived in Wellington
Friday, 18 June 2004, 1:35 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington: Greenpeace's flagship the Rainbow Warrior has arrived in Wellington Harbour with evidence of the destructive impacts of bottom trawl fishing on the high seas. More >>
Rainbow Warrior Returns
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington Thursday 17 June 2004: After nearly a month at sea documenting the destruction of bottom trawl fishing as part of the ‘Mysteries of the Deep Sea Expedition’, the Rainbow Warrior and her international Greenpeace crew arrive in Wellington on Friday ... More >>
High Seas Destruction of CITES Protected Species
Monday, 14 June 2004, 8:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tasman Sea, 12 June 2004 - As United Nations delegates (1) stand on the brink of deciding what recommendations are to go to the UN General Assembly on how to protect high seas life, the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior has documented evidence ... More >>
NZ Fails to Protect Deep Sea at UN Conference
Monday, 14 June 2004, 8:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
United Nations, New York, June 13: The destruction of the deep seas will continue to accelerate after New Zealand officials failed to oppose Iceland, Japan, and other countries that blocked proposals for protection of the High Seas at a United Nations ... More >>
Head's Up
Friday, 11 June 2004, 4:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand has had a large delegation from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ministry of Fisheries and the Department of Conservation at this week's UN meeting exploring global governance of the oceans (UNICPOLOS). More >>
Samsung Commits to phase out hazardous chemicals
Friday, 11 June 2004, 8:57 am | Greenpeace
Brussels, 10 June 2004 -- Consumer electronics company Samsung has decided to phase out hazardous chemicals used in its consumer electronics. These chemicals are those that persist in the environment because they are not easily degraded. More >>
Greenpeace urges "research" whalers to tell truth
Friday, 11 June 2004, 8:42 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 9 June 2004. The fleet of "research" whalers expected to depart Japan June 10th is sailing under false pretences Greenpeace said today. Last year the "research" whalers marketed 3,000 tonnes of whale meat for 52 million ... More >>
Minister accepts bottom trawl damage
Thursday, 10 June 2004, 1:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, June 10, 2004: Greenpeace today welcomed the Fisheries Minister's acknowledgement that bottom trawling damages deep sea life and that marine biodiversity needs to be protected. However a piece-meal approach to the biggest threat to deep sea life ... More >>
Images: Greenpeace Locates Bottom Trawlers At Sea
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 10:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
High Seas: The role of the New Zealand bottom trawl industry on the high seas will come under close scrutiny in New York, after Greenpeace discovered three New Zealand bottom trawlers fishing on the high seas yesterday. More >>
G8 Leaders Urged To Stop Plutonium Production
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 9:22 am | Greenpeace
Savannah, U.S., 8 June 2004 - On the opening day of the G-8 Summit, Greenpeace is urging leaders to support the global effort to stop production of all plutonium, the key radioactive ingredient to nuclear weapons, and to remove existenting nuclear ... More >>
Greenpeace Acts to Expose High Seas Destruction
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 8:35 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Acts to Expose High Seas Destruction as United Nations Talks of Protection on World Oceans Day More >>
NZ bottom trawlers exposed on high seas
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 8:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
9 June 2004 High Seas: The role of the New Zealand bottom trawl industry on the high seas will come under close scrutiny in New York, after Greenpeace discovered three New Zealand bottom trawlers fishing on the high seas yesterday. More >>
Update: More NZ Bottom Trawler Fishers Discovered
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 12:00 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
High seas and New York, Wednesday 9 June 2004: Campaigners onboard the Rainbow Warrior on the high seas in the Tasman Sea have now identified five New Zealand fishing vessels active high seas around 350 miles off the coast of New Zealand on the Northwest Challenger ... More >>
Coalition seeks UN halt to deep sea destruction
Tuesday, 8 June 2004, 10:38 am | Greenpeace
New York, June 7, 2004: A broad international coalition of environmentalists, The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, today called on the United Nations (UN) to suspend the most destructive fishing practice on the high seas. Bottom trawl fishing in international ... More >>
World Enviro Day Focus On Greatest Deep Sea Threat
Monday, 7 June 2004, 9:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
International waters near New Zealand, Saturday 5 June 2004: Calls for deep sea protection from the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior II on World Environment Day urge us not to put life in the deep sea out of mind, because it is out of sight. The call ... More >>
The Dawn Of Renewable Energy Revolution Underway
Friday, 4 June 2004, 11:06 pm | Greenpeace
June 4th, 2004, Bonn, Germany: Following the largest ever inter-governmental meeting on renewable energy, held in Bonn over the past four days, Greenpeace described the event as a significant step but warned that the outcomes lacked the political will ... More >>
Govt sided with reckless GE states
Friday, 4 June 2004, 1:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Friday 4 June 2004: Contrary to what Marion Hobbs says; that the government has been too busy (1) to ratify the Cartegena protocol on Biosafety, the New Zealand Government has in fact been in active collusion with the biggest and most reckless ... More >>
Iceland abandons major part of whaling programme
Thursday, 3 June 2004, 9:16 am | Greenpeace
The Icelandic government will put their so called “scientific” whaling programme on hold and limit this years take to 25 minke whales. The planned take of 500 whales, including sei and fin during a 2 year period, have been cancelled, due to a strong ... More >>
Images: Angry Fishers Attack Nelson Protest
Monday, 31 May 2004, 4:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Angry fishing workers tear down fishing nets during a Greenpeace protest at the Orange Roughy Management Company headquarters in Nelson today. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the destruction wrecked on deep sea life by bottom trawl ... More >>
