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Mars commits to No Deforestation, exposes P&G for inaction
Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 12:02 pm | Greenpeace
ars committed to remove deforestation from all of its products by the end of 2015, a move that places pressure on companies such as Procter & Gamble to set an equally ambitious No Deforestation Policy. More >>
Greenpeace “Thanks” P&G For Forest Destruction As Protest Ta
Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 11:59 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace “Thanks” P&G For Forest Destruction As Protest Takes Place At Company’s HQ More >>
Procter & Gamble brings rainforest destruction into bathroom
Friday, 28 February 2014, 11:18 am | Greenpeace
Procter & Gamble, which makes Head & Shoulders, is sourcing palm oil from companies connected to orangutan habitat clearance in Indonesia, making consumers part of a widespread forest destruction scandal. More >>
Greenpeace Response to Government Oil Drilling Announcement
Thursday, 27 February 2014, 3:19 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace’s energy campaigner responded to news today that the Government will not allow New Zealanders the chance to have a say about exploratory oil drilling More >>
Mainlanders say no to deep sea oil drilling
Saturday, 15 February 2014, 2:30 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
‘Banners on the Beach’ activities attracted well over 2000 people to over 20 beaches from Golden Bay to Bluff. Estimates for the biggest crowds were Dunedin (600) Christchurch (500) and Kaikoura (350). More >>
Ban on shark finning important step
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 2:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, 9 January 2014 – Environmental groups have welcomed new laws to ban shark finning in New Zealand waters but are disappointed it will be almost three years before they take full effect. More >>
Arctic 30 New Zealanders Return Home
Sunday, 29 December 2013, 1:43 pm | Greenpeace
The two New Zealanders who spent two months in a Russian prison following a peaceful protest at an Arctic oil platform have returned home. David Haussmann and Jonathan Beauchamp are now back in New Zealand and will spend some time with their families. More >>
100 days after they were seized Arctic 30 are leaving Russia
Saturday, 28 December 2013, 7:51 am | Greenpeace
St Petersburg, 27 December 2013 – The Arctic 30 are going home. They are leaving Russia today and over the weekend. A plane carrying five Britons and a Canadian took off shortly after 11:30 am local time from St Petersburg airport, heading for Paris. ... More >>
An extremely odd Christmas morning
Thursday, 26 December 2013, 12:41 pm | Greenpeace
St Petersburg, 25 December 2013 – The final chapter in the legal ordeal of the Arctic 30 began today as the group was asked to attend a meeting at Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee, where the criminal case against them is being dropped en ... More >>
Gazprom begins first production at Arctic 30 oil platform
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 12:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Amsterdam, 20th December 2013 - Russian oil giant Gazprom today announced it has produced the first commercial quantities of oil from its controversial Arctic drilling platform Prirazlomnaya in the remote waters of the Pechora Sea. In response, Greenpeace ... More >>
Court decision shows Governments drilling programme a farce
Friday, 20 December 2013, 9:06 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says the outcome of a High Court decision reviewing the role of the government’s Environmental Protection Agency in regulating dangerous deep water drilling confirms that it is a ‘box ticking’ farce. More >>
Russian parliament votes for amnesty for Arctic 30
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 8:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Greenpeace activists who spent two months in jail after a peaceful protest in the Arctic have expressed relief after the Russian parliament voted to grant them amnesty. But they also declared: “There is no amnesty for the Arctic.” More >>
PHILIPPINES: Political Detainees freed on Human Rights Day
Saturday, 14 December 2013, 9:08 am | Greenpeace
Three (3) Muslim victims of arbitrary arrest and detention were released last December 10, 2013, Human Rights Day after the Taguig Regional Trial Court's decision that they were victims of mistaken identity. More >>
Russian authorities say Arctic 30 cannot return home
Saturday, 14 December 2013, 8:51 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, December 13th 2013: The Russian authorities have told the Arctic 30 that they cannot leave the country, defying the ruling of an international court which ordered that they should be allowed to go home immediately. More >>
Current draft of Russian amnesty does not include Arctic 30
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 9:20 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 11 December 2013 - Lawyers for Greenpeace International believe the draft text of a Russian amnesty to be voted on by the Duma (the Russian parliament) would be unlikely to benefit the Arctic 30. More >>
Simon Bridge’s Story - An Animation
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 11:59 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Every man has a story. A history. Here are a few blokes you may recognise, and the stories that define them. And then there’s Simon Bridges. More >>
Greenpeace urges Cairns tuna summit to end overfishing .
Monday, 2 December 2013, 12:47 pm | Greenpeace
Suva, 1 December 2013 - Greenpeace activists today deployed a floating banner at a harbour in the Pacific, reading: “Fewer boats more fish WCPFC Act Now!” This message is directed at the members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission ... More >>
Homecoming: Final video blog from the Oil Free Seas Flotilla
Monday, 2 December 2013, 9:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Here's the final blog from the Oil Free Seas Flotilla which arrived in Auckland today after almost three weeks at sea. They were protesting against oil giant Anadarko drilling at a site over 100 nautical miles off the west coast of New Zealand, and ... More >>
Australian Arctic 30 activist Colin Russell bailed
Friday, 29 November 2013, 3:02 pm | Greenpeace
Australian activist Colin Russell has been granted bail today by a St. Petersburg court, the last of the Arctic 30 detainees to be ordered released on bail after a peaceful Arctic oil drilling protest. He has spent 71 days in detention. More >>
Video blog 24 from Oil Free Seas Flotilla - 28 Nov
Thursday, 28 November 2013, 2:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Four of the six Oil Free Seas Flotilla yachts are expected to arrive in Auckland on Sunday. In this latest video blog Greenpeace NZ Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid looks back over the seven days SV Vega spent inside the 500 metre exclusion zone ... More >>
