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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 97]
Democracy undermined by spying
Monday, 21 April 2008, 10:12 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Monday 21 April: Greenpeace is shocked at the arrogance shown by Gavin Clark, of Thompson and Clark Investigations (TCIL) after they were exposed for the second time trying to pay someone to spy and undermine the activities of the Save ... More >>
Greenpeace Paints Stern Of US Tuna Fisher
Monday, 21 April 2008, 10:04 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace took action against the US purse seiner, Cape Finisterre, in a pocket of international waters between Pacific Island countries. Activists painted the vessel with the words "Tuna overkill" and held a banner reading 'Marine reserves NOW'. More >>
Greenpeace Acts To End Overfishing Of Pacific Tuna
Friday, 18 April 2008, 9:34 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is in the Pacific to defend the pockets of international waters between Pacific Island Countries as marine reserves from rapacious fishing fleets intent on fishing out the world's last tuna stocks - the world's favourite fish. More >>
Illegal Shipment Of Amazon Timber Seized In Brazil
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 10:31 am | Greenpeace
A shipment of Amazonian timber bound for Europe has been seized, the Brazilian Environmental Authority (IBAMA) announced today. The confiscation comes just weeks after Greenpeace exposed the trade in illegal timber between Brazil and Europe. More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes IPCC Renewable Energy Report
Friday, 11 April 2008, 11:33 am | Greenpeace
"The IPCC's special report on renewable energy will not come a moment too soon. This independent and thorough assessment should provide further evidence that renewable technology can meet the world's energy needs without fuelling climate change." More >>
Parody: Sarkozy Marries Merkel, Screws The Climate
Friday, 11 April 2008, 10:49 am | Greenpeace
A "wedding cortege" of the most-polluting German cars travelled along the Champs Elysée in Paris today, stopping in various showrooms to distribute invitations to the marriage of French President Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel. More >>
Greenpeace reveal Dairy expansion out of control
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 11:36 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has today revealed the extent of climate-damaging dairy conversion in New Zealand with an activity in the central North Island in which 30 volunteers are currently replanting over 1000 trees on land cleared for dairy farming. More >>
Video: Malcolm Evans Creates A Greenpeace Cartoon
Friday, 4 April 2008, 5:05 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Photo + Video: Renowned political cartoonist Malcolm Evans puts paintbrush to billboard over climate change in Wellington where the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior is currently docked. More >>
Cartoonist Evans Makes Live Billboard For Climate
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 1:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington Thursday 3 April, 2008 – Renowned political cartoonist Malcolm Evans (1) will do a live billboard drawing in central Wellington today, as part of calls for stronger climate policies from New Zealand's political leaders. More >>
Webcast: Sean Plunket Chairs Climate Policy Debate
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 10:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sean Plunket to chair political debate on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior : Live video WEBCAST More >>
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 >>
