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Real pirates plunder and steal
It is now more than 30 days since our ship was seized and our 30 friends and colleagues were arrested. They now face a charge of piracy — an absurd charge that carries a maximum 15 year jail sentence. In the meantime pirate fishing is a real threat, recklessly plundering our oceans. It seems like…
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West African Communities Rally to Protest Monster Boats
Just one week after Chilean fishermen and Greenpeace vigorously protested against the Margiris supertrawler, Mauritanian fishermen and fishing communities in West Africa are also raising their voices against monster boats in their own waters. In a statement sent out in Nouakchott, Mauritania, local fishermen called on West African governments to no longer allow supertrawlers into their…
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How community power is ending the age of coal in Turkey
There is no better start to a day than waking up to good news. Especially, at a time when your hope is weakened by a near war in your neighbouring country, and by your government trying to allow your forests, national parks and protected areas to be opened up for infrastructure projects. You wake up…
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It says it’s sustainable, but the palm oil industry is still destroying the rainforest
An excavator creates a canal in Riau Province, Indonesia, despite the heavy smoke caused by the forest fires. The palm oil industry is desperate to paint itself as sustainable. Yet for the last couple of years, palm oil plantations have been the number one cause of deforestation in Indonesia. For much of the summer, the…
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Hunt’s direct action on rainforest could reap carbon rewards
By David Ritter, University of Western Australia Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt’s ambition to broker a new global rainforest recovery plan reopens an important conversation about Australia’s role in tackling tropical deforestation. And it reminds us there is much Australia could do right now. According to Hunt in an announcement on 30 August, “[n]othing…
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Coca-Cola’s ‘Three Cs’: cops, cons and court action
In its bid to slam the door on an Australian wide roll out of a cash for containers scheme that’s been so successful in South Australia, Coke has been employing its ‘Three Cs’ – cops, cons, and court action. Here at Greenpeace, we are using campaigning, community and comedy to up our campaign to achieve…
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Whale meat shipment successfully blocked
This morning, Greenpeace Germany activists boarded a ship docked in Hamburg, and prevented it from leaving with a cargo of meat from endangered fin whales. Germany doesn’t hunt whales of course. Like almost every country in the world, the German government agrees that commercial whaling should be banned. One company in Iceland does hunt whales, but…
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Fishing for a fair deal in the Pacific and why the EU must change their game
It’s fair to say that when it comes to getting access to the Pacific’s fishing resource, power trumps beauty almost every time. Take for example Kiribati—a stunning island atoll in the Pacific —and one with little land mass but surrounded by waters that contain the region’s most valued fish – tuna. Kiribati relies heavily on…
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President Obama must do more
Yesterday afternoon at Georgetown University, President Obama plans to announce a series of "steady, responsible steps" to tackle climate change. It appears that the president will finally begin to make good on his climate promises, but to truly meet his obligation to future generations, this must be the foundation -- not the final act --…
