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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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IGA supermarkets drop toilet paper made from destroyed tiger habitats
Press release – 24 August, 2011Greenpeace urges other APP customers to do the sameSydney, Thursday 25 August 2011 : Metcash, the owners of IGA supermarkets, have dropped toilet paper products from the notorious Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) following a four-week Greenpeace campaign. On Tuesday 23 August, Metcash released a statement on their website announcing…
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Carving up the last bluefin
Press release – 22 August, 2011Sydney, 23 August 2011: This morning in Sydney, the regional bluefin tuna commission – the Commission for the Conservation of Bluefin Tuna (CCBST) – will meet to decide on fishing quotas for the critically endangered species.Bluefin tuna is currently at around 5% of its original spawning stock biomass. The CCBST…
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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…
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I’m scum? Well I’m not destroying rainforests
In the last few days I’ve learnt that I’m “scum”, “a bloody idiot”, “a bloody hypocrite of epic proportions” and even had an abusive comment in ape language translated for me. People say you have to be thick-skinned as a campaigner but frankly this is pretty tame (and uncreative) compared to what I might cop…
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Greenpeace calls on Solaris Paper to investigate online abuse
Press release – 16 August, 2011Greenpeace is calling on Solaris Paper to come clean on whether senior staff have resorted to astro-turfing and personal abuse against Greenpeace and staff members at IGA supermarkets.Yesterday, the online news site Mumbrella alleged they had traced personal abuse against Greenpeace and senior management of the supermarket IGA posted in…
