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Meet A Volunteer: Leah
Leah lives in Fiji’s capital, Suva, and has been a community activist and volunteer with Greenpeace for over 3 years. How did you start volunteering with Greenpeace? Saving whales got me interested after I visited an information booth they organised in Suva in 2006. I mentioned to a friend that it would be interesting to…
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Coal Power Station Bites The Dust
We had great news this week as it was announced that Queensland coal-fired power station, Swanbank B, would be closed down. We’ve been calling for it to be closed down for years. This aging power station, first built in 1971, has been an unnecessary blight on Queensland’s landscape for too long. In July 2008, I…
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Extinction Or Sashimi For Bluefin Tuna?
Recently, the governments of the world failed to protect Northern Bluefin Tuna at the global meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Japan consumes 80% of the world's fished Northern Bluefin Tuna. Unsurprisingly, it was also lobbying against the species' protection in favour of continued lucrative trade.
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Nestlé Pull Greenpeace Ad From YouTube
Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.
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Are You Eating Forest Destruction?
The rampant expansion of the palm oil industry is having a devastating effect on the environment and is a disaster for global climate change. And it’s happening right on our doorstep. Every day, huge areas of forest in our neighbouring countries are being cleared to make way for new plantations, causing greenhouse gas emissions to…
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Commercial Whaling Back On The Cards
The end to large-scale, industrial whaling was achieved in 1986 and is seen as one of the great victories of the environment movement. But this achievement might be undone by negotiations currently underway. Commercial whaling could be set for a comeback after closed-door negotiations between 12 countries, including Japan and Australia, resulted in a proposal…
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Tuvalu E! Not Even The Dead Are Safe
Today marks the first day of the Tuvalu King Tides Festival. The festival slogan is a call to arms: “Tuvalu e! The tide is rising”.
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We Aren’t Celebrating The Fact We’re Drowning
Shirley Atatagi is one of our political advisors based in the Pacific. She's currently in Tuvalu for the King Tides Festival. In this blog post she explains Tuvalu's vulnerability to climate change impacts and why Tuvaluans celebrate the festival.
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Success: Renewable Energy Target Strengthened
Today we’re celebrating as the Government announced it would straighten out some of the problems with its Renewable Energy Target. A key 2007 election promise from Kevin Rudd was to increase the Renewable Energy Target (“RET”). The RET was supposed to make sure 20% of Australia’s electricity came from renewable sources by 2020. However, after…
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GUILTY! UN finds Japanese authorities violated human rights of Greenpeace anti-whaling activists
Press release – 8 February, 2010The United Nations has ruled that the Japanese Government breached international human rights law by detaining two Greenpeace activists who uncovered major corruption in the Japanese whaling programme. (1)One week before the "Tokyo Two", Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, stand trial on February 15th, it has been revealed that the…
