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Greenpeace Launches Campaign To Expose Sealord's Logo
Monday, 29 August 2011, 9:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace launches massive subvertising campaign to expose the dirty truth behind Sealord’s new logo More >>
Investigation Links Cottonsoft to Deforestation
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 3:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Evidence released today reveals that Auckland based company Cottonsoft is sourcing its toilet paper from rainforests in Indonesia, home of the critically-endangered Sumatran tiger. More >>
Investigation Links Cottonsoft to Deforestation
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Evidence released today reveals that Auckland based company Cottonsoft is sourcing its toilet paper from rainforests in Indonesia, home of the critically-endangered Sumatran tiger. More >>
Greenpeace accuses Cottonsoft of greenwashing
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 1:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland Tuesday August 23rd, 2011: Greenpeace today accused Cottonsoft of completely failing to address forensic evidence that their toilet rolls contain Indonesian rainforest fibre. More >>
Green groups welcome Warehouse suspension of Cottonsoft
Monday, 22 August 2011, 3:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand’s leading environmental groups today welcomed news that The Warehouse has suspended orders of Cottonsoft toilet rolls, pending an investigation into evidence that the product is sourced from Indonesian rainforests. More >>
Cindy Baxter: The spectre of Shell
Thursday, 18 August 2011, 10:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
As global oil reserves run low, the oil giants are looking further and further afield in search of new oil. From the Arctic to the extreme deep waters of New Zealand, the oil drillers are preparing to take greater and greater risks in the search for ... More >>
Shell spill continues as NZ deep water aspirations revealed
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 12:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
As Shell Oil was announcing its involvement in plans to drill in the deep water of the Great South Basin, off the bottom of the South Island, the 1300-barrel spill from a rig operated by Shell in the North Sea was being labelled as ‘substantial’ ... More >>
Can’t see the fish for the tuna?
Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 1:33 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has run a full page advertisement in this week’s issue of a women’s magazine calling on Sealord to change its canned tuna to more sustainable sources. More >>
Texan corporate Anadarko postpones NZ deep sea drilling
Friday, 5 August 2011, 5:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace NZ is celebrating the news today that Texan corporate Anadarko has postponed plans to drill test wells off the Taranaki and Canterbury coasts this summer. More >>
Greenpeace calls on govt to explain toxic waste exports
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 3:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the government to come clean about exports of toxic waste from New Zealand to the Phillipines and South Korea. OIA Documents passed to Greenpeace reveal that New Zealand has exported at least 50,000 tonnes of toxic battery waste ... More >>
Hui commits to stop expansion of fossil fuels extraction
Sunday, 31 July 2011, 6:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, July 31st 2011: Iwi, community and environmental organisations united at a hui in Auckland this weekend, with the goal of stopping the Government’s efforts to dramatically ramp up the exploitation of fossil fuels in Aotearoa New Zealand. ... More >>
NZ tuna brands must follow UK
Wednesday, 27 July 2011, 9:27 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 27 July 2011 – An announcement yesterday that means all the main tuna brands in the UK are shifting to greener fishing methods has set a sustainability benchmark that New Zealand must follow says Greenpeace. More >>
Government’s roads plan so last century
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 4:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland July 26 2011: The Government’s announcement that it will spend billions on roads, but only a comparatively small amount on public transport, shows that its ideas for economic growth and transport come straight out of the 1950s, Greenpeace ... More >>
Stop deep sea oil tour to begin in the North
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 10:49 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Representatives from Greenpeace New Zealand, and East Coast iwi te Whānau-ā-Apanui, will begin a tour of the Far North on August 1, during which they will be forging alliances with iwi, commercial and recreational fishing groups, tourism bodies, environment ... More >>
Greenpeace condemns whaling nations’ sabotage: IWC meeting
Monday, 18 July 2011, 11:53 am | Greenpeace
As the 63rd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission came to a close in Jersey, a day that saw pro-whaling member nations leave the meeting to avoid voting on the creation of a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary, Greenpeace UK oceans campaigner ... More >>
Wheels coming off Govt’s deep sea oil plans
Sunday, 17 July 2011, 12:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 17 July, 2011 - Greenpeace is heralding the pulling of the Northland and Rienga blocks as another success in the nationwide campaign to ensure deep sea oil drilling does not occur in New Zealand waters. More >>
Govt must be straight up over upset in deep sea oil process
Friday, 15 July 2011, 3:43 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace NZ is calling on the Government to stop being secretive about what appears to be a major back-down in its plan to open New Zealand up for offshore deep-water oil exploration. More >>
Greenpeace condemns whaling nations’ sabotage as IWC closes
Friday, 15 July 2011, 10:15 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Jersey, 15 July – As the 63rd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission came to a close in Jersey, a day that saw pro-whaling member nations leave the meeting to avoid voting on the creation of a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary, Greenpeace UK ... More >>
Adidas & Nike Challenged To Champion A Toxic-Free Future
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 8:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Beijing, July 13th 2011 - Greenpeace activists displayed a banner with the message "Detox" at the main entrance of both the world's largest Adidas store and a nearby Nike store today in Beijing, calling on the sportswear giants to remove ... More >>
Greenpeace challenges Adidas and Nike to a toxic-free future
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 4:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists displayed a banner with the message ‘Detox’ at the main entrance of both the world's largest Adidas store and a nearby Nike store today in Beijing, calling on the sportswear giants to remove toxic chemicals from their supply ... More >>
