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Govt admits palm kernel imports aid deforestation

Friday, 18 September 2009, 9:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

John Key’s Government today admitted that production of palm kernel animal feed is helping destroy Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests. In response to questions in Parliament about palm kernel imports, Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, speaking ... More >>

Greenpeace activists removed

Thursday, 17 September 2009, 9:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace activists removed by police from blockading a shipment of palm kernel animal feed at Tauranga port say their actions have highlighted Fonterra’s climate crime and are continuing their calls to John Key to force the multinational to stop ... More >>

Tauranga Police update on Greenpeace protest

Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 4:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Tauranga Police are continuing to work with Port officials and relevant authorities in relation to the boarding of a ship, the East Ambition, in Tauranga Harbour by Greenpeace. Tauranga Area Commander, Inspector Mike Clement, says police staff are ... More >>

Fonterra misleading NZ on palm kernel dairy feed

Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 3:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace is refuting Fonterra’s claims that the multi-national has no responsibility for the shipment of PKE currently offshore in Tauranga. Greenpeace activists boarded the ship this morning to draw attention to the climate impacts of palm kernel production. ... More >>

Greenpeace Block Palm Kernel Feed Shipment

Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 11:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Tauranga, 16 September 2009 - Greenpeace activists have blocked a shipment of palm kernel animal feed from Indonesia, entering Tauranga Port and destined for Fonterra dairy farms. They are calling on John Key to halt imports of the product due to its ... More >>

Pacific Activists Free Marine Life On High Seas

Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 1:28 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Pacific Ocean, September 15, 2009 - Pacific activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, freed marine life and confiscated fishing gear from a Korean longliner, MFV Oryong 717, in international waters of the Pacific proposed as a future marine reserve. ... More >>

Revised ETS an insult to New Zealanders

Monday, 14 September 2009, 6:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland Monday 14 September - New Zealand’s revised emissions trading scheme is an insult to New Zealand’s environmental reputation and sends a clear international message that we’re not serious about tackling climate change, says Greenpeace. ... More >>

Revised ETS an insult to New Zealanders

Monday, 14 September 2009, 5:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

New Zealand’s revised emissions trading scheme is an insult to New Zealand’s environmental reputation and sends a clear international message that we’re not serious about tackling climate change, says Greenpeace. More >>

World bank proves Fonterra's claims a sham

Thursday, 10 September 2009, 11:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

The World Bank has suspended funding to Fonterra’s palm kernel supplier, Wilmar International, due to environmental and humanitarian concerns. More >>

Wellington Statues Get Plastered For The Planet

Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 11:40 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Sign On volunteers have been out after dark raising the profile of the campaign by plastering iconic Wellington statues with blue casts - a reference to when John Key broke his arm at the beginning of the year. "When John Key broke his arm, many local ... More >>

Taiwanese ships caught illegally transferring tuna

Thursday, 3 September 2009, 10:26 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Two Taiwanese longline tuna fishing vessels were caught by Greenpeace illegally transferring fish at sea yesterday. (1) “Members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) must shut down all pockets of international waters to all fishing ... More >>

ETS changes will cost taxpayers

Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 10:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace is warning that taxpayers will pay if there’s a price cap added to the current emissions trading scheme, but welcomed agreement by most Members of Parliament that climate change is real and action needs to be taken now.

“After nearly eight months of fiddling the proposal now to add a price cap to the emissions trading scheme is a triple whammy, bad for taxpayers, bad for New Zealand’s credibility and bad for the planet,” said Greenpeace spokesperson Geoff Keey. “If that's all they can come up with after nearly eight months in a select committee we are in big trouble.” More >>

Greenpeace ship sails to protect Pacific tuna

Thursday, 27 August 2009, 4:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is sailing to the Western and Central Pacific Ocean to protect threatened Pacific tuna stocks (1), as the fishing industry reports record catches. More >>

100,000 Join the Sign On cast of thousands

Thursday, 27 August 2009, 12:28 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 25 August 2009 - Over 100,000 New Zealanders have joined the Greenpeace Sign On campaign, which aims to generate an unprecedented level of support for John Key to sign on to a 40 per cent by 2020 emission reduction target at the UN climate ... More >>

Greenpeace Palm Kernel Deforestation Images

Monday, 24 August 2009, 11:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Pristine rainforest located in a National Park near Jambi, Sumatra. 72 % of Indonesia's ancient intact forests have been cleared. 15 % of the world's biodiversity resides in Indonesia. It is vital the remaining forests are protected. More >>

Fonterra’s role in rainforest destruction exposed

Sunday, 23 August 2009, 12:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand - 23 August 2009 – Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter, must take responsibility for the part it plays in rainforest destruction and the massive greenhouse gas emissions that result from this destruction in Indonesia ... More >>

UN head of climate slams NZ emission target

Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:07 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

New Zealand’s highly conditional emissions reduction target of 10-20 per cent has been strongly criticised by the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , Dr Rajendra Pachauri. In comments to the Press Newspaper today, Dr. Pachauri ... More >>

Sign On Ambassadors Give Limbs For Cause

Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 4:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Office workers wanting a quiet lunchtime panini in Vulcan Lane Auckland today would have been sorely disappointed. TV cameras, journalists , Sign On signature gatherers, a mayor, a scientist, the Warrior Princess and the Whale Rider filled the narrow ... More >>

Come on John - Sign On!

Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 2:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland Tuesday 18 August - Lucy Lawless and Keisha Castle-Hughes, Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey and acclaimed climate scientist Jim Salinger were among the Sign On ambassadors who today launched a new phase of the successful climate campaign. Sign On, which ... More >>

Greenpeace delivers message to Foodtown

Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 12:30 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace, today, hung a large banner on a downtown Auckland Foodtown supermarket and called on it to implement a sustainable seafood policy (1) and remove bottom trawled species, like orange roughy, from its shelves. The peaceful protest, which ... More >>