Greenpeace

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice.

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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Email - info@greenpeace.org.nz
Website - www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/
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Key Issues - Agriculture
Key Issues - Oceans
Key Issues - Plastics
Key Issues - Climate

Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 150]

Nestle NZ defer to Australia In Defence Of GE Food

Friday, 31 March 2000, 4:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

In response to Greenpeace’s invitation to Nestle New Zealand – to make a commitment to remove genetically engineered ingredients from their food products - Nestle has refused to offer to New Zealand consumers what Nestle consumers currently enjoy in ... More >>

Three Greenpeace Activists Arrested

Thursday, 30 March 2000, 5:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand, 30 March 2000. Police forcibly removed and arrested three Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to the gates of the Nestle Distribution Centre in Wiri, South Auckland at 6am this morning. They have been charged with trespass ... More >>

Greenpeace exposes GE contamination of Nestle

Thursday, 30 March 2000, 9:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace exposes GE contamination of Nestle food in New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand, 30 March 2000 – Greenpeace activists today have halted distribution of Nestle products at Nestle’s South Auckland distribution centre. The action aims to prevent food potentially ... More >>

WTO Must Apply The Precautionary Principle: GPeace

Saturday, 25 March 2000, 10:21 am | Greenpeace

GENEVA, March 23, 2000 - The credibility of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will be further diminished unless it recognises and implements the precautionary principle, Greenpeace said today as world trade talks on agriculture resumed here. More >>

Russian Cabinet Has Plans To Import Nuclear Waste

Saturday, 25 March 2000, 10:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

MOSCOW, March 23, 2000 – Russia could move a step closer to becoming the world’s nuclear waste dump with the cabinet of ministers expected to approve today plans to overturn national environmental legislation and import nuclear waste. More >>

Greenpeace frees abandoned pirate fish catch

Tuesday, 21 March 2000, 12:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Southern Ocean, Antarctica, Tuesday, 21 March 2000 – Greenpeace has discovered five kilometres of abandoned pirate fishing line bearing fish so valuable they are known as ‘white gold’ in illegal fishing circles. Crew, including five New Zealanders, ... More >>

Statement Pinochet Case - Amnesty Internatinonal

Friday, 3 March 2000, 10:23 am | Greenpeace

Clarification of Amnesty International's Position on the Case In the light of recent press reports indicating that groups that have campaigned for Pinochet to stand trial "privately admit that they can do little more to prevent his departure,"* ... More >>

Greenpeace Disappointed by GE Food Conference

Thursday, 2 March 2000, 3:27 pm | Greenpeace

Edinburgh, March 1, 2000 --- Greenpeace today expressed its disappointment by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) food safety conference and the draft report produced by the organisers. The conference closed today in Edinburgh, ... More >>

Greenpeace Exposes Former US Base Equipment Leak

Thursday, 2 March 2000, 3:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Manila/Amsterdam, 29 February 2000: Greenpeace today removed a former United States military airbase transformer which was leaking extremely toxic industrial chemicals (PCBs) into the environment in a residential area of Mabalacat, in the Philippines. More >>

Greenpeace - Commercial Whaling Could Return

Wednesday, 26 January 2000, 10:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland/ MV Arctic Sunrise, Australia, 25 January 2000: - As the Greenpeace vessel, the MV Arctic Sunrise, arrived in Australia today after over a month on the high seas taking non- violent direct action to disrupt Japan’s illegal whaling programme, ... More >>

Japan's Whaling Offensive Media Briefing

Tuesday, 25 January 2000, 5:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Background: The Japanese government, pressed by its whaling industry, has embarked on an ambitious programme to resume large scale commercial whaling on the high seas, despite international opposition. More >>

Press Statement By Greenpeace Campaigner, John Bow

Tuesday, 25 January 2000, 5:55 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

25 January, 2000 - MV Arctic Sunrise, Australia: "The world has now witnessed Japan’s whaling activities as it continues to defy international law and hunt whales illegally in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary. More >>

Greenpeace Warns Commercial Whaling Could Return

Tuesday, 25 January 2000, 5:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace Launch Global Whale Sanctuary Petition

Wednesday, 19 January 2000, 5:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland - 19 January 2000: Greenpeace is today launching the Global Whale Sanctuary petition at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland. The petition calls on the New Zealand government to take a leadership role in ending commercial whaling ... More >>

Brazil Opposes Japanese Whaling

Monday, 17 January 2000, 2:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

AMSTERDAM/SOUTHERN OCEAN: As Greenpeace today continued to take non-violent direct action against the Japanese fleet illegally whaling in the protected Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Brazil added its voice to the growing international opposition to ... More >>

Activists Dragged Up Stern Ramp Of Whaling Ship

Monday, 17 January 2000, 9:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 13 January, 2000: Late last night (NZ time) two Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat were dragged half way up the stern ramp of a Japanese whaling ship after they attached their boat to a tow-line being used to transfer a harpooned ... More >>

NZ Demands End To Illegal Japanese Whaling

Monday, 17 January 2000, 8:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

AMSTERDAM/SOUTHERN OCEAN, 14 January, 2000: Greenpeace today welcomed New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clarke’s condemnation of illegal Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary. The Prime Minister has ordered her Foreign Minister to make a high ... More >>