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Japanese Whaling Fleet Departure Marked By Crisis
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 9:30 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists this morning marked the departure of Japan's whaling fleet from the port of Innoshima with banners reading "Whaling on Trial", another in Japanese outlining the whaling's multi-million dollar drain on Japan's taxpayers. More >>
Climate Change Minister missing in action
Monday, 17 November 2008, 4:50 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 17 November 2008 - The National Party’s press release detailing Cabinet posts makes no mention of the environment and climate change portfolios, nor the MP who’s rumoured to be heading them. More >>
National/ACT agreement economic self-sabotage
Sunday, 16 November 2008, 4:47 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 16 November 2008 - Greenpeace is warning that National and ACT's agreement on confidence and supply shows both parties could risk a trade backlash by lowering New Zealand's environmental standards and procrastinating over climate change. More >>
Activists prevent oil tankerloading in Indonesia
Saturday, 15 November 2008, 10:42 am | Greenpeace
Dumai/Jakarta, 14 November 2008 - Greenpeace today prevented the loading of crude palm oil on the Isola Corallo, a Rotterdam-bound tanker in Dumai, Indonesia’s main palm oil export port. Greenpeace is calling upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm ... More >>
Japan's Whaling Programme In Disarray
Thursday, 13 November 2008, 12:03 pm | Greenpeace
Japan's whaling industry is in deep crisis, even before the fleet prepares to leave port for its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, with new revelations of financial and image problems. More >>
Climate change - Nowhere to Hide
Monday, 10 November 2008, 10:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland November 10 2008 - Greenpeace is urging the newly elected National Party not to be held hostage to ACT's Rodney Hide over climate change policy. More >>
Greenpeace call on Belgium and E.ON to quit coal
Saturday, 8 November 2008, 1:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Antwerp, 7 November 2008 - More than 80 activists placed thousands of windmills with the message to “Quit Coal” at the site of E.ON’s proposed coal fired power-plant in Antwerp Harbour. The action illustrates the choice facing Flemish authorities: ... More >>
Anti-Whaling Activists Face Prosecution In Japan
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 12:25 pm | Greenpeace
Ending the political prosecution of two Greenpeace activists in Japan will become the central focus of a global mass mobilisation campaign against the Japanese Government's whale hunt in the Southern Ocean Whaling Sanctuary. More >>
Greenpeace Ramps Up Whales Campaign In Japan
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 3:39 pm | Greenpeace
Tokyo, Japan, 4 November 2008 – Greenpeace announced today the next phase of its campaign to end lethal whaling by ramping up its activities in Japan. More >>
Fed Farmers bites the hand that feeds
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 10:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has challenged Federated Farmers to tell consumers in its high yield export markets that it doesn't give a toss about climate change. More >>
Labour and National fail environmental test
Monday, 3 November 2008, 12:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand's two biggest political parties have failed the environment test, put to them by two major New Zealand environmental groups. More >>
Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea
Saturday, 1 November 2008, 2:27 pm | Greenpeace
Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau (RH) admitted yesterday that its rights to log the vast Kamula Doso forest area in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Western Province were awarded illegally. More >>
Solution to Indonesia’s rapid forest destruction
Saturday, 1 November 2008, 12:11 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Jakarta, Indonesia, 31 October 2008 – Greenpeace this morning launched its Forests for Climate initiative, the pioneering solution to reduce deforestation, tackle climate change, preserve global biodiversity and protect the livelihoods of millions of forest ... More >>
Would John stop this udder madness?
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 11:39 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Another inappropriate dairy conversion has occurred in New Zealand - this time on John Key's front lawn. A dwindling pine forest, some dairy cows, several stumps and a truckload of Ready Lawn now adorn the land at Mr Key's Helensville electorate office. ... More >>
Inappropriate dairy conversion on John Key's lawn
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:27 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A dwindling pine forest, some dairy cows, several stumps and a truckload of Ready Lawn now adorn the land at Mr Key's Helensville electorate office. A large billboard reads: "Would John stop this climate crime?" More >>
Japanese Whaling Ship Outlawed By Panama
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 12:11 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, October 28th 2008: The Oriental Bluebird, re-supply and transport ship of Japan's whaling fleet, has been de-flagged and fined, following a legal ruling by Panamanian authorities. More >>
Activists forcibly removed from logging equipment
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Police have removed the four Greenpeace activists who'd halted a major land conversion in the Central North Island by locking on to forest logging equipment. More >>
Greenpeace halts forest conversion to dairy
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 10:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has halted a major land conversion in the central North Island, locking on to forest logging equipment and using rotary hoes to plough 4m-high letters reading CLIMATE CRIME into fresh pasture. More >>
Greenpeace Calls On Philips To Take Back & Recycle
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 10:24 am | Greenpeace
As Philips business relations gathered for the Philips Simplicity Event in Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate its 110 years on the Russian market, Greenpeace activists unveiled a banner with the text “Philips: simply take back & recycle”. More >>
Greenpeace Indonesia Tour Spotlights Deforestation
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 10:39 am | Greenpeace
Jakarta/Jayapura -Greenpeace today embarked on the Indonesian leg of its "Forests for Climate" ship tour, to shine the spotlight on the rampant destruction of the Paradise Forests - the last remaining ancient forests of Southeast Asia. More >>
