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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 >>
Fishing Industry's Destructive Practices
Monday, 31 May 2004, 1:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
May 31, 2004 Nelson: The response from the fishing industry this morning to a peaceful protest calling for the protection of deep sea life, was to kick and drag people and smash and destroy any cameras recording the event. More >>
Greenpeace casts net over bottom trawlers
Monday, 31 May 2004, 12:06 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Nelson, 31 May 2004: This morning Orange Roughy Management Company was covered in a huge fishing net. A choir 'caught' beneath the company doorway sang songs about destruction of life in the deep sea. Each singing activist held placards showing ... More >>
Rainbow Warrior Bombing - Lest We Forget
Thursday, 27 May 2004, 2:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
26 May 2004, Matauri Bay, Far North: The crew of the Rainbow Warrior II paid tribute to her submerged predecessor in Matauri Bay, in the Far North today. As is tradition, the crew laid a wreath above the Rainbow Warrior, which was bombed in 1985 by the ... More >>
Images: Rainbow Warrior's Oceans Campaign
Thursday, 27 May 2004, 9:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland - Over the next couple of months a spotlight will be shining on the world's most destructive fishing practice, revealed Greenpeace today. See… Mysteries of the Deep Sea Expedition More >>
Mysteries of the Deep Sea Expedition
Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 2:19 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland - Over the next couple of months a spotlight will be shining on the world's most destructive fishing practice, revealed Greenpeace today. More >>
Image: Ronald McDonald's GE Fed Chicken Victory
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 11:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Image: Ronald McDonald Celebrates McDonald's Decision On GE Fed Chicken More >>
McDonalds seek non-GE feed
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 10:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace New Zealand has today announced that it will end its public campaign against McDonalds New Zealand following a statement from the fast food giant that they are seeking a non-GE feed supply for their chicken products More >>
Greenpeace Applauds Poor Knights Decision
Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 3:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has welcomed the news that the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has accepted the NZ Maritime Safety Authority’s proposal and has designated the Poor Knights a “mandatory area to be avoided”. More >>
Mitsubishi Ceases Buying Tasmanian Ancient Forest
Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 11:42 am | Greenpeace
Sydney, Tuesday, May 18 2004: Japanese multinational Mitsubishi Corporation, an importer of Tasmanian woodchip who trade with Gunns Ltd1, have replied to a letter from Greenpeace Japan and the Wilderness Society stating they will cease buying woodchips from Tasmania's ... More >>
Hollywood does Climate Change
Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 12:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A Hollywood blockbuster looks set to catapult climate change into the mainstream and should encourage a much-needed debate about New Zealand's increasing use of fossil fuels. More >>
