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Greenpeace says legal bid alone not enough to stop whaling
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says Governments needs to look beyond a legal bid to stop Japan whaling in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully announced today that the New Zealand Government has decided not to file as a party to Australia's ... More >>
Cancel new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to cancel all new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits that have been granted by Crown Minerals to new offshore oil exploration by international oil companies. More >>
EU Undergoing Major Reform of Fisheries Policy
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 9:41 am | Greenpeace
Today, Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a destructive fishing trawler outside the EU Council building. Inside, EU fisheries ministers are negotiating 2011 fishing quotas and are expected to once again set them significantly above levels ... More >>
Failure of Tuna Rescue Package Bad News for the Pacific
Monday, 13 December 2010, 11:00 am | Greenpeace
Auckland, 12 December 2010 – The world’s industrial fishing fleets will continue to plunder vital tuna resources from the Pacific following the rejection of a rescue package to halt the decline of tuna stocks, says Greenpeace.A number of measures ... More >>
Europeans Demand a Moratorium on Genetically Modified Crops
Monday, 13 December 2010, 9:28 am | Greenpeace
Today, Avaaz and Greenpeace delivered the first ever Citizens’ Initiative inspired by the Lisbon Treaty to Health Commissioner John Dalli. Since December 2009, the citizen’s right of initiative is enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty, allowing a million ... More >>
Government must act now to stop palm kernel imports
Sunday, 12 December 2010, 1:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 12 December 2010: Following the publication of the Sunday Star Times story “Russian roulette with palm kernel imports,” (1) Greenpeace is calling on the Government to put an immediate stop to Fonterra’s use of imported palm kernel feed. More >>
Greenpeace says report exposes Government hypocrisy
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 10:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 9 December 2010 - Greenpeace has welcomed the report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment which recommends that proposals to exploit lignite coal reserves in the South Island, by the Government’s coal mining company Solid ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands US Leadership in Protecting Pacific Tuna
Monday, 6 December 2010, 12:53 pm | Greenpeace
The group is urging the US to support the proposal by Pacific nations to close off the four pockets of international waters including the eastern high seas area to purse seine fishing as science shows the Pacific region’s tuna stocks are threatened ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands Bold Measures to Protect Pacific Tuna
Monday, 6 December 2010, 11:42 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is urging the US and fishing nations to agree to bold measures to protect Pacific tuna at a vital meeting in Honolulu this week. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting starts tomorrow, just as science shows the Pacific ... More >>
The Inconvenient Truth of Canned Tuna
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 10:39 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, November 24, 2010. The first independent, public genetic tests by Greenpeace into the contents of tinned tuna brands has uncovered evidence of the tuna industry’s complete disregard for both consumers and the future sustainability of tuna stocks ... More >>
Full Steam Ahead on New Rainbow Warrior
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 8:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Five months after start of construction, the finished hull of Greenpeace's new Rainbow Warrior is being transported today from the Maritim Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland to the Fassmer Shipyard in Bremen, Germany. Towage by tug boat of the 340 tonne hull, ... More >>
Fonterra fails to grasp sustainability
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 4:45 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Despite the central billing given to sustainability at this year’s World Dairy Summit, it is clear that to Fonterra this relates to profits and growth, not the future of the planet. More >>
Fonterra urged to just listen at World Dairy
Monday, 8 November 2010, 11:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is urging Fonterra not to ignore the important discussions about the links between sustainability, climate change, and dairying that will be taking place at this week’s World Dairy Summit. More >>
PKE Questions force Fonterra to abandon facebook
Saturday, 30 October 2010, 11:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Fonterra has apparently 'pulled the plug' on its Facebook page, rather than answer the questions being submitted to it by members of the public on the company's use of palm kernel expeller (PKE). More >>
NZ seafood retailers lacking sustainable standards
Friday, 29 October 2010, 11:28 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand seafood retailers have fallen well behind the world’s major markets when it comes to setting seafood sustainability standards, a Greenpeace report reveals. More >>
Greenpeace reveals ANZ Australia’s dirtiest bank
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 5:08 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has launched a new campaign to illuminate the role of ANZ as the biggest financier of polluting coal power in Australia. More >>
Greenpeace calls for deep sea drilling ban
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 11:07 am | Greenpeace
*Brussels, 13 October 2010* - New deep sea oil operations should be banned as the only sure way of preventing a Deepwater Horizon-like spill in Europe, Greenpeace said in response to today’s shake-up of offshore drilling rules by the European ... More >>
Government intent on pouring crude oil on NZ
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 1:51 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, 7 October 2010 – ‘Oil-smeared’ people walked through central Wellington today to protest Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee’s reckless determination to dig and drill for more dirty fossil fuels while ignoring the impacts on climate ... More >>
Cook Islands Call for Closures to All Tuna Fishing
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Pohnpei, Micronesia, October 6, 2010 – The Cook Islands has tabled its intent for the closure of the eastern high seas pocket (1) to all forms of fishing at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission’s (WCPFC) Technical Committee ... More >>
Proposed no-take area in the Pacific Ocean
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:28 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling for global support for a Cook Islands plan to close off a large area of international waters (1) to all fishing in order to restore Pacific tuna fisheries, protect biodiversity and eliminate pirate fishing. More >>
