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Overfishing in the Pacific – on board the Esperanza
Arthur is the onboard Communication Officer for the first leg of Defending the Pacific 2011. By Arthur Dinio, Communication Officer, Greenpeace For a while I believed Japan is solely to blame for depleting tuna stocks. Now on my second expedition to the Pacific, I cant help but notice the fact that fishing vessels from Taiwan…
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‘Tigers’ expose Asia Pulp and Paper greenwash
Last week we launched the ‘eye of the tiger’ tour in Indonesia, during which five activists will journey around Sumatra bearing witness to the forest destruction caused by companies like Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). However, a few days ago we discovered we weren’t the only ones planning a tour around Sumatra. Blogpost by Bustar…
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"I’m the eye of the tiger"
The Sumatran tiger is a graceful and prestigious animal. It’s the ‘King of the Jungle’, a symbol of the richness of the forest, and an inspiration in Indonesian culture. To survive in its forest home the tiger has to run fast and have sharp eyes. But now, the Sumatran tiger’s survival is threatened because that…
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Deni celebrate their forest homeland in the Brazilian Amazon
September 11, 2001 was not only a day of major tragedy in the US, which changed the world we are living in, it was also a day of hope for the Deni. The Deni are an indigenous group living in semi-isolation in a very remote part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, whose land at that…
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Bad time down under for APP gets worse
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Steve Nicholson, the corporate affairs director for Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in Australia and New Zealand. Fresh from a PR crisis in Australia – caused when his staff were found out for anonymously posting offensive comments online about a Greenpeace staff member and APP’s former largest…
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The Esperanza back in the Pacific
How about this for great timing? The Esperanza has arrived in the Pacific – the same ocean where Greenpeace started its first campaign – just in time for our 40th anniversary later this month. Blogpost by Phil Crawford (Comms officer on the Espy) In 1971 we were protesting against nuclear testing in the Pacific. In…
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Plastic arctic
For many people the Arctic is seen as one of the last wilderness regions left where there has been limited human impact. However, sampling of marine plastic debris over the past few days shows that the far reaching effects of mankind is clearly present even in the Arctic Ocean.
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The future of our oceans deserves a fair debate in Taiwan
Today, Greenpeace activists went to the Taiwan Fisheries Agency’s headquarters to demand they address the tuna overfishing crisis and be more transparent about the Agency’s budget and policy-making.
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Big Coal vs. The People
The eyes of even the most hardened court observers glazed over as the seemingly endless mess of legal procedures dragged on. It wasn’t just unremarkable, it was outright dull – obscuring the profound struggle set to unfold. Blogpost by John Hepburn Originally published by Rooted August 25, 2011 Monday was day one of a…
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The Rainbow Warrior II retires
It’s a day of mixed emotions for Greenpeace. For 22 years our ship the Rainbow Warrior II and her crew have confronted environmental destruction around the world, bearing witness and taking action to protect our planet. And today we say farewell to her. After the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior I by French government agents…
