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Macken sense: I’m not psychic but…
The mining industry has a problem – farmland, the environment and the pesky Great Barrier Reef just keeps getting in the way of their vast new coal mines and mining infrastructure. Not for much longer. Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson, told a National Energy Conference in Brisbane this week what the source of…
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If opening our pockets would mean emptying them…
With more than 7,000 islands the Philippines has a coastline longer than the United States. We are surrounded by water, in fact more than 2 million square kilometers. Original blogpost by Mark Dia, Greenpeace Phillipines A majority the Philippine population eat fish, with 80% of animal protein intake coming from the ocean. One would think that as…
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Xerox: Honesty is the best policy when you are caught trading with APP
It is three weeks since we launched ‘The Ramin Paper Trail’ exposing that the logyards at APP’s main pulp mill in Indonesia are riddled with illegal ramin logs. We also released evidence showing that 11 companies, including Xerox, had rainforest fibre from APP in their products Blogpost by Andy Tait, Senior Campaign Advisor Although Indonesia’s…
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Will brooms and shovels clean up the Arctic?
New Zealand and Finland are practically on opposite sides of the planet, and quite a long way away from Alaska. Yet, they are the two starting points for Shell’s fleet of rented and commissioned ships that are preparing to get together and start drilling for oil in the Arctic this summer. They’re not getting away…
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Did you hear the one about the CIA?
Two weeks ago I got the kind of phone call a journalist loves to make and an activist hates to take. It was a journo from The Australian Financial Review (AFR) – my old alma mater – and he began the conversation by saying, “I’ve received a document that I need to get authenticated, can…
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It’s no holiday for tuna scientists in the Pacific
Every year, Pacific Ocean fisheries experts gather to review all of the current scientific data and make recommendations to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) on what us scientists call “conservation and management measures” – measures that should protect not only the target fish species of tunas, marlins, and swordfish, but also ocean…
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Our leaders can and should save the Pacific tuna next week
Ocean stewardship in the Pacific has come a long way. Ask a Pacific islander fifty years ago about managing fish and you would have been greeted with a look of bemusement. After all, fish back in the day were thought of as unlimited. Ask a pacific islander today about managing fish and the response will…
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A jungle story
Susie Lovato is one of thirteen who successfully completed our Sumatran Jungle Challenge in October 2011. We chatted to Susie about her inspiration and experience of taking up the challenge. “I’ve been a Greenpeace supporter since 2006. Even though I started small, signing petitions and reading the latest Greenpeace articles, when I found out about…
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David vs Goliath
Last week Greenpeace launched a vital new campaign for Australia. We’re taking on the massive coal mining and coal export expansion plans particularly in Queensland. These mega coal mines, coal port infrastructure and increases in coal shipping traffic not only spell disaster for our climate but for Australia’s national treasure – the Great Barrier Reef.…
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New Antarctic Ocean Alliance to blaze trail for marine reserves
According to some people, 2012 is supposed to be a year of transformative events. Well I don’t know about astronomical alignments, the Mayan calendar and all that, but for us oceans campaigners, 2012 is definitely significant – for 2012 is the year by which the world’s governments should have committed to a global network of…