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Hacktivists Make A Solid Statement
Saturday, 26 November 2011, 12:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
This morning we received a call from a journalist asking whether it was Greenpeace that had subverted the Solid Energy website: solidenergy.co.nz The site had been redirected to an alternate page that carries an anti-lignite mining video message ... More >>
Pirates of the Pacific caught in illegal tuna fishing
Friday, 25 November 2011, 4:48 pm | Greenpeace
Activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza have demonstrated against tuna vessels operating illegally in an area known as the Pacific Commons (1) near Indonesia. More >>
Greenpeace: Cottonsoft toilet rolls has rainforest fibres
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 11:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 23/11/2011: Greenpeace today released further evidence showing how tissue products made by Cottonsoft, a subsidiary of Indonesian paper giant Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), are contaminated with rainforest fibres. More >>
Greenpeace rebuffs Cottonsoft attack
Monday, 21 November 2011, 3:03 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 21st November 2011: Greenpeace today confirmed that it stands 100 per cent behind the investigation which proved that samples of toilet paper manufactured by Cottonsoft contain Indonesian rainforest fibre. More >>
Greenpeace releases shocking whistleblower tuna fish footage
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 11:07 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 17 November 2011 - Greenpeace today released shocking footage and images of whales and a marlin and ray dying at the hands of industrial tuna fishers in the Pacific Ocean (1). More >>
Greenpeace Releases Shocking Whistleblower Footage
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 11:02 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 17 November 2011 - Greenpeace today released shocking footage and images of whales and a marlin and ray dying at the hands of industrial tuna fishers in the Pacific Ocean (1). More >>
Drilling through the lies
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 12:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Brazil’s first taste of a deepwater oil drilling blowout this week has demonstrated one thing above all else – just like you can’t trust the nuclear industry neither can you trust the word of big oil. More >>
Petrobras field the source of serious deep sea oil leak
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 4:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company that is intending to drill for oil in up to 3100 metres of water off the East Cape, is the part-owner of an oil field northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where a serious oil leak has developed. More >>
French Nuclear Giant EDF Convicted Of Spying On Greenpeace
Friday, 11 November 2011, 3:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 11 November 2011: A French court today convicted the French state electricity company, Electricité de France SA (EDF), on charges of spying on Greenpeace France. The company was fined €1.5 million, and ordered to pay €500,000 in damages to ... More >>
APP On The Attack Still Won’t Abandon Rainforest Destruction
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 2:51 pm | Greenpeace
A few days ago we revealed that Asia Pulp and Paper, the world’s most notorious rainforest destroyer and owner of the NZ Cottonsoft toilet paper brand , has lost more customers. Lots of big clients have walked away because APP keeps on using Indonesian ... More >>
Celebrities join 100,000 Kiwis in saying no to deep sea oil
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 3:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Actor Lucy Lawless and climate scientist Jim Salinger today added their names to a Greenpeace petition calling for a shift to clean sources of energy. The number of people signing the petition has surged since the Rena disaster, and the total ... More >>
Greenpeace Has Launched The New Rainbow Warrior (video)
Friday, 4 November 2011, 12:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Has Launched The New Rainbow Warrior – Undergoing Sea-Trials Greenpeace International has launched a replacement Rainbow Warrior. More >>
Auckland’s biggest problem is Wellington – Greenpeace
Monday, 31 October 2011, 2:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland planners must account for the realities of the 21st century, rather than clinging to the car-based dreams of the 1950s, if the city is to prosper, and improve its liveability, says Greenpeace New Zealand in a submission to be made today on ... More >>
Greenpeace demands leather free from Amazon deforestation
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 3:55 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace staged a fashion show with Italian top models in Piazza Maggiore, while the city plays host to one of the world's largest leather industry fairs, Linea Pelle, to expose the continued link of Amazon rainforest destruction to leather. More >>
Oil protest skipper in court the same day as Rena crew
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 12:37 pm | Greenpeace
The skipper of the te Whānau-ā-Apanui-owned fishing boat the San Pietro, which took part in the Stop Deep Sea Oil Flotilla earlier this year, appeared in the same court in Tauranga this morning as the Rena’s Captain and Second Officer, who have ... More >>
Deep sea oil protest skipper due in Tauranga court
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 4:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The skipper of the te Whānau-ā-Apanui fishing boat San Pietro, is scheduled to appear at the District Court in Tauranga at 10am tomorrow (19th October), on charges relating to a protest off the East Cape against deep sea oil drilling in April this ... More >>
Greenpeace activists confront deep sea oil exploration ship
Monday, 17 October 2011, 11:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Monday 17th October, 2011. This morning Greenpeace activists held a legal protest outside Port Taranaki against a ship that is due to depart imminently to start exploring for deep sea oil – the new frontier of oil development off New ... More >>
Greenpeace launches a new Rainbow Warrior
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 12:47 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam - Berne-Motzen, 14th October 2011 -- At a ceremony in Berne-Motzen, Germany, Greenpeace today launched the third version of its protest vessel the Rainbow Warrior. Purpose built as a campaigning vessel, the Rainbow Warrior carries state-of-the-art ... More >>
Greenpeace volunteer team assists Rena clean up operation
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 10:03 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 15th October 2011. A team of volunteers organised by Greenpeace New Zealand will today begin work cleaning toxic fuel oil off beaches in the Bay of Plenty. More >>
Greenpeace welcomes Goff’s awaited insight on deep sea oil
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 4:13 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today welcomed Labour leader Phil Goff’s acknowledgement that there is a direct link between the Rena oil spill, and plans to open New Zealand up to deep sea oil exploration. More >>
