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Video: Greenpeace Lyttleton Blockage + Background
Monday, 31 March 2008, 10:07 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
This video gives some background to the Greenpeace climate change campaign in New Zealand and some footage from the Rainbow Warrior's blockade of the Hellenic Sea coal shipment in Lyttelton on the 25th March. More >>
Greenpeace occupies coal ship
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 5:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior has blocked a shipment of export coal from leaving the Port of Lyttelton. This is the first time the Rainbow Warrior has been used to block another ship in New Zealand. More >>
Greenpeace Launches Planet Balloon
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 12:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
This morning Greenpeace launched a giant, planet-shaped hot air balloon from Bastion Point in Auckland, with the wording: "Target Climate Change." More >>
Hard-hitting ETS report for Rainbow Warrior tour
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 9:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has used a hard-hitting report into the Government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to launch a six-week, nation-wide ship tour aboard the iconic Rainbow Warrior. More >>
Pacific People To Name Int'l Marine Reserves
Friday, 29 February 2008, 7:55 pm | Greenpeace
The proposed marine reserves cover extensive areas that include biologically rich undersea mountains, migration routes of tuna species, habitat of endangered leatherback turtles and breeding areas of skipjack, albacore and bigeye tuna. More >>
Is "sexy coal" on the agenda?
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 12:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
It will be interesting to see if National's Energy Strategy, due to be presented to the party's caucus this evening, contains any reference to "sexy coal", says Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace: Japan Resumes Scandalous Whale Hunt
Monday, 4 February 2008, 11:31 am | Greenpeace
Once more, Japanese taxpayers must be wondering why they are funding this scandalous fake research operation which produces no real science, whale meat that no one wants to eat, and brings their country into international disrepute. More >>
Japan resumes scandalous whale hunt
Friday, 1 February 2008, 12:11 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says it's saddened by reports from the Australian Customs vessel, the Oceanic Viking, that the Fisheries Agency of Japan's whaling fleet has killed at least five whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. More >>
Over 100 Whales Saved by Greenpeace
Sunday, 27 January 2008, 5:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Southern Ocean, 26th January 2008: After spending two weeks successfully preventing the Japanese whaling fleet from hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (1), the Greenpeace ship Esperanza is running low on fuel and must return to port. The ... More >>
Greenpeace calls on Canon to defend the whales
Friday, 25 January 2008, 9:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tokyo, January 24, 2008: Canon, the world's top digital camera maker and major sponsor of projects to save endangered species, has refused a Greenpeace request to condemn the Japanese government's whaling programme. The head of Canon, Fujio Mitarai, is ... More >>
Greenpeace Inflatables Harassed by Japanese
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 9:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
After delaying the refuelling of the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship Nisshin Maru this morning, Greenpeace inflatables returned to document boxes of whale meat being transferred to refuelling and cargo vessel Oriental Bluebird, and to continue ... More >>
Greenpeace blocks whalers from refueling
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 2:14 pm | Greenpeace
On the eleventh day of successfully preventing the Japanese whaling fleet from killing whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary [1], activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza today blocked the fleet's factory ship from being refuelled. More >>
Japanese govt admits Greenpeace hindering hunt
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 9:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tokyo, January 22, 2008: At a press conference in Tokyo yesterday afternoon the administrative vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Toshiro Shirasu told reporters that the whaling fleet has not resumed hunting because Greenpeace is following their ... More >>
Japan's "Fake" Whaling Programme begins to Crumble
Monday, 21 January 2008, 1:44 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Southern Ocean, January 18, 2008: Echoing a series of scandals which have beset the Japanese government over the past twelve months, Greenpeace activists today sent a message direct from the Southern Ocean back to Tokyo, as pressure mounts inside ... More >>
Another Japanese whaling ship leaves
Friday, 18 January 2008, 4:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Southern Ocean, January 18, 2008: A second ship from the Japanese government whaling fleet has left the hunting grounds as the Greenpeace ship Esperanza continues to keep the fleet's mother ship, Nisshin Maru out of action More >>
Greenpeace: Car Industry Green Claims A Fairy Tale
Friday, 18 January 2008, 12:38 am | Greenpeace
As automobile shows opened in Brussels and Vienna today, Greenpeace challenged the European car manufacturers to stop undermining a proposal for more fuel efficient cars, and instead take real action to lower the climate impact of their fleets. More >>
Japanese Fleet Driven Out Of Southern Ocean
Monday, 14 January 2008, 10:08 am | Greenpeace
Southern Ocean, Sunday January 13th 2008 – After a high speed chase over hundreds of miles through fog and increasingly rough seas, the Greenpeace ship Esperanza this morning drove the Japanese whaling fleet out of the Southern Ocean hunting grounds. More >>
Greenpeace Confronts Japanese Whalers In Southern Ocean
Monday, 14 January 2008, 10:07 am | Greenpeace
Southern Ocean, 12 January 2008 – Following a 10-day search in Antarctic waters, the Greenpeace ship Esperanza today confronted Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. More >>
Stop Agriculture From Killing The Climate
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 12:06 am | Greenpeace
Industrial agriculture is killing the climate. But it is possible to turn this key source of greenhouse gas emissions into a carbon sink, our new report 'Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential' reveals. More >>
Greenpeace captures rare Humpback recordings
Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 4:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Southern Ocean, January 8, 2008: An international team aboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, currently searching for the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, has made a rare series of humpback whales recordings in Antarctic waters. More >>
