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Greenpeace occupies timber ship in Belgium
Monday, 22 March 2004, 9:04 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace occupies timber ship in Belgium in bid to save orang-utans and tigers from extinction More >>
Monsanto apply to have GE wheat allowed in NZ food
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 4:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monsanto has applied to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to allow genetically engineered wheat to be introduced into the New Zealand food chain. More >>
Dinosaur Decision for Dirty Old Coal Mine
Friday, 12 March 2004, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is shocked with the Conservation Minister's approval today of a huge new coal mine at Pike River on the West Coast. More >>
Paris: Millions of people contaminated
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 8:54 am | Greenpeace
Paris -- Major failures in security arrangements for transports of weapons-usable plutonium across France pose an enormous environmental and health hazard, according to a study commissioned by Greenpeace International released today. The study reveals ... More >>
Greenpeace calls review safety of nuke reactors
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 8:59 am | Greenpeace
Berlin, Germany -- Greenpeace Is calling on all nuclear safety authorities around the world to urgently review the safety of their reactors and to close the most vulnerable following the leak of a confidential German document, which shows no single nuclear ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Agreement to Eliminate Poisons
Friday, 27 February 2004, 1:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland - Last night's announcement by the Minister for the Environment that the Stockholm Convention on deadly poisons will come into force in May is welcomed by Greenpeace New Zealand. More >>
Call for Urgent Presidential Action in Kalimantan
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 8:45 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Jakarta - As the Greenpeace blockade of Central Kalimantan illegal logging operations continued today, the organisation called for the Indonesian President, Mrs Megawati Sukarnoputri, to demand urgent enforcement from her police force. Greenpeace has ... More >>
World Bank, Pentagon: global warming red alert
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 11:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A world thrown into turmoil by drought, floods, typhoons. Whole countries rendered uninhabitable. The capital of the Netherlands submerged. The borders of the US and Australia patrolled by armies firing into waves of starving boat people desperate ... More >>
Blockade provokes expulsion of illegal log ship
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 8:44 am | Greenpeace
Jakarta --.Greenpeace today assisted the Indonesian Navy expel an illegal log vessel, as part of a blockade in Central Kalimantan that has been ongoing for 10 days. The Ha Tinh 06, owned by the Vietnamese government and registered in Haiphong, has been ... More >>
Will Ministers act to protect life on earth?
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 8:39 am | Greenpeace
*Kuala Lumpur -- The Ministers of Environment from all over the world gathered today in Kuala Lumpur during the Summit for Life on Earth—the UN meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As environment negotiations reach a critical stage ... More >>
Govts fail to stop ancient forests from logging
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 8:32 am | Greenpeace
Jakarta, Indonesia -The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, today announced the discovery of several barges loaded with hundreds of logs soon to be exported from Indonesia. The logs come from a region that includes the Tanjung Puting National ... More >>
Governments urged to protect the deep sea
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 8:29 am | Greenpeace
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. - Over 1000 of the world's foremost marine scientists released a strong statement calling on governments and the UN to act swiftly to protect the imperilled biological diversity of vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems. The statement ... More >>
Scientists Urge Govts. To Protect The Deep Seas
Monday, 16 February 2004, 2:40 pm | Greenpeace
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 16 February 2004--Over 1000 of the world's foremost marine scientists - including New Zealand scientists(1) - released a strong statement today calling on governments and the UN to protect threatened deep sea ecosystems by establishing ... More >>
Climate: New Pictures Of Disappearing Glaciers
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 10:30 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Buenos Aires, 10 February 2004: New visual evidence of the impacts of climate change was released by Greenpeace in Patagonia today. Dramatic new photos of Patagonian glaciers taken by the research team on board the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise ... More >>
Australian Govt. Speaks Out NZ Remains Silent
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 2:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday 10th February 2003: The launch of Greenpeace’s report last week on Malaysian company Rimbunan Hijau’s illegal logging operations in PNG, has erupted into a bitter debate in Australia and PNG, with Australia’s Forestry Minister and a former PNG ... More >>
PNG Landowners Forest Gift to Conservation Min.
Friday, 6 February 2004, 12:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace and Papua New Guinea landowners today handed over a photo album graphically illustrating the plight of Papua New Guinea’s forest peoples to New Zealand’s Conservation Minister. More >>
Activists Arrests As LumberBank Refuses Inspection
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 3:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday, February, 2004; 3.00pm - Three Greenpeace activists have been arrested after police cut through chains that were blockading the entrances of Auckland based timber company The LumberBank. More >>
Greenpeace Reveals NZ Trading in Illegal Timber
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 8:47 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Forest Crimes Unit together with landowners from Papua New Guinea (PNG) closed Auckland timber company – The LumberBank Ltd- today accusing them of importing timber from illegal operations in PNG and selling it here in NZ. More >>
Corrupt logging company profits from rights abuses
Monday, 2 February 2004, 11:39 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland -- A Greenpeace report exposing the corrupt and destructive activities of the global Malaysian logging company, Rimbunan Hijau, has been published in the lead up to the summit for life on earth--the UN meeting of the Convention for Biological ... More >>
Greenpeace Win On Russian Court Case
Monday, 26 January 2004, 9:51 am | Greenpeace
*Moscow, 23 January 2004—* Greenpeace in Russia this week won a case in the Supreme Court abolishing part of the Russian Federation Government resolution of September 15, 2003 regarding the Sochi All-Republican State Nature Preserve, which intended ... More >>
