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Baby Oranguatans playing at Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation

Image | February 15, 2010 at 16:01

Two baby orangutans play at the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS). The orangutans in this center have been rescued because their natural habitat is being destroyed. Orangutans, already endangered, are being pushed to the brink of...

Go plastic free for our oceans

Blog entry by Sarah King, Oceans campaign coordinator | June 8, 2013 2 comments

Have you ever ordered fries at a sit down restaurant and with them came a plastic cup or plastic package with only a tear drop of ketchup? Have you ever noticed that most drinks you order these days, except for our old friends beer and...

Clover Leaf Kills More Than Just Tuna - Ad Spoof

Video | October 17, 2011 at 15:19

Sharks and other at-risk species are collateral damage in the destructive tuna fisheries sourced by Clover Leaf. Send Clover Leaf a message at http://www.greenpeace.ca/tunaaction

Clover Leaf Seafoods' Unlucky Tuna

Image | March 17, 2012 at 11:00

Greenpeace activists visited Clover Leaf Seafoods' offices to deliver a special St. Patrick's day singing telegram imploring the company to green its cans. Clover Leaf is currently Canada’s largest brand of unsustainable tuna, sourcing from...

Action Against Clover Leaf Tuna in Ontario

Image | October 26, 2011 at 11:30

Greenpeace activists dressed as sharks hold banners over a pile of Clover Leaf tuna products that were hauled into Clover Leaf Seafoods' Canadian headquarters by fellow activists. Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner Sarah King also delivered a platter...

A homeless polar bear in London

Video | September 24, 2012 at 17:20

Our leaders won't listen to her, but they'll listen to you. What do you have to say to those who want to destroy the Arctic? Join our campaign at savethearctic.org

Action to Protect Cod in the North Sea

Image | May 12, 2007 at 12:15

Greenpeace volunteers attempting to save North Sea cod from being pushed towards extinction, plunged into the ocean 40 miles from land and tried to stop a Scottish trawler by placing themselves in its course. Greenpeace fears that if fishing for...

Displaying Banner- Baltic Tour

Image | September 11, 2006 at 12:24

A Greenpeace activist displays a banner reading: 'Marine Reserves Now' in a pledge to introduce marine reserves into the Baltic Sea. The reserves would protect marine life which is currently being fished close to or beyond safe biological limits.

By-catch Discarded by Trawler

Image | May 13, 2007 at 12:27

By-catch is discarded through the hatch of the Scottish trawler 'Carisanne II'. By-catch includes unwanted, undersized and low value species that are discarded, dead, at sea. The wasted catch is not included in fishing quotas.

Fish Catch On-board the Reiderland

Image | April 25, 2007 at 12:31

A pile of freshly caught fish on-board the 'Reiderland'. This German pair trawler is bottom trawling for North Sea Cod. In 2003, the International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) called for a zero catch on this stock which is...

Tuna Overfishing Action at French Fisheries Ministry

Image | November 17, 2008 at 12:34

Greenpeace activists dump some 5 tonnes of dead bluefin tuna heads in front of the French Fisheries Ministry in Paris to protest the continual mismanagement of the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery that is leading to the...

Dead Bluefin Tuna

Image | July 3, 2008 at 12:38

Dead bluefin tuna in a transfer cage. The cage, being towed behind an Italian trawler, moves at 1 knot and transfers captured fish from fishing vessel to a fattening cage in Tunisian waters. Several fish die en route.

Greenpeace Divers in the Pacific Ocean

Image | September 1, 2009 at 12:43

Greenpeace divers hold up a banner that reads "No fish No future" next to a fish aggregation device (FAD). Around 10% of the catch generated by purse seine FAD fisheries is unwanted by-catch and includes endangered species of sharks and turtles.

Oceans Bluefin Tuna Action

Image | September 11, 2009 at 12:46

A Greenpeace activist in the sea holds a banner reading "Ban Bluefin Tuna Trade" during a protest to demand immediate action to protect the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna from commercial extinction.

Turtle and FAD

Image | December 4, 2009 at 12:50

A turtle swimming around a fish aggregation device (FAD) belonging to the Ecuadorean purse seiner 'Ingalapagos', which was documented by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands. Around 10% of the catch generated by purse...

Greenpeace Action Against Redlist Fish at Loblaws

Image | November 6, 2008 at 12:53

Greenpeace campaigners hold signs over top of Loblaws entrance demonstrating the company's selling of red-listed fish.

Seafoods Market Montreal

Image | April 21, 2008 at 12:57

Fish and seafood in a Montreal market.

Cod Billboard

Image | September 11, 2009 at 13:01

Greenpeace Canada launches an ad campaign on buses, a billboard in Halifax and Ottawa that read: “There’s probably no cod. Now let’s stop overfishing & think of the future.”

Greenpeace Canada Seafood Tour Victoria

Image | May 26, 2009 at 14:30

Greenpeace activists target Redlist species by chaining freezer doors shut and locking up seafood in shopping carts on the first day of a cross-Canada campaign.

Greenpeace Canada Seafood Tour, Victoria

Image | May 26, 2009 at 14:47

Greenpeace activists target Redlist species by chaining freezer doors shut and locking up seafood in shopping carts on the first day of a cross-Canada campaign.

Greenpeace Canada Seafood Tour in Victoria

Image | May 26, 2009 at 14:50

Greenpeace activists target Redlist species by chaining freezer doors shut and locking up seafood in shopping carts on the first day of a cross-Canada campaign.

Greenpeace Canada Seafood Tour: Victoria

Image | May 26, 2009 at 14:54

Greenpeace activists target Redlist species by chaining freezer doors shut and locking up seafood in shopping carts on the first day of a cross-Canada campaign.

Close-up of Cod Head in Coffin

Image | March 18, 2010 at 15:00

Greenpeace mourners, complete with coffin and hearse, form a funeral procession at a Sobeys food store in Halifax, mourning the loss of the Atlantic cod.

Cod in a Coffin

Image | March 18, 2010 at 15:03

Greenpeace mourners, complete with coffin and hearse, form a funeral procession at a Sobeys food store in Halifax, mourning the loss of the Atlantic cod.

Greenpeace Stages Cod Funeral at Sobeys

Image | March 18, 2010 at 15:13

Greenpeace mourners, complete with coffin and hearse, form a funeral procession at a Sobeys food store in Halifax, mourning the loss of the Atlantic cod.

Greenpeace Stages Cod Funeral at Sobeys, Halifax

Image | March 18, 2010 at 15:17

Greenpeace mourners, complete with coffin and hearse, form a funeral procession at a Sobeys food store in Halifax, mourning the loss of the Atlantic cod.

Dead Tuna - Defending Our Oceans

Image | June 15, 2007 at 15:20

This bluefin tuna died as a result of being caught on a long-line which broke but it was still attached to buoys on the surface.

COD FUNERAL IN HALIFAX

Image gallery | March 18, 2010

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT

Video | March 23, 2009 at 1:00

The Campaign for a World We Can Breathe In. As a campaign like this should, the video speaks for itself.

Learning from the BP Deepwater Horizon’s oil spill disaster

Blog entry by cskinner | May 5, 2010

Stephanie Goodwin   May 5, 2010   As Enbridge Pipelines was holding their Annual General Meeting in Calgary today, Greenpeace was outside their Vancouver office holding a vigil.  We stood in solidarity with affected...

Ecuadorian Assembly Approves Constitutional Rights for Nature

Blog entry by Josh Brandon | August 21, 2008 6 comments

Way to go Ecuador! Most of us would assume that nature has a natural right to exist. Now in Ecuador, this right could finally be codified in law. The articles listed below, were passed on July 7 of this year by the 130 member ...

Defend our Coast: Victoria, BC

Image gallery | October 23, 2012

Vicious Circle - narrated by John Hurt

Video | September 21, 2012 at 10:14

On June 21st 2012, at the Rio+20 conference, Greenpeace launched the global Save the Arctic campaign. This video was presented to help raise awareness on the complex challenges we face if we want to preserve this pristine region for future...

Jason Hwang is my hero

Blog entry by Stephanie Goodwin | April 6, 2011

This week, the Cohen Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon uncovered a note, a smoking gun of sorts. Jason Hwang, a Department and Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) manager, identified key issues with his workplace, the Oceans...

BC municipalities and First Nations vote unanimously against Enbridge

Blog entry by Stephanie Goodwin, B.C. Director for Greenpeace | October 3, 2010

Last week, Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal took more collateral damage from very powerful groups in British Columbia: the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Municipalities. The First Nations Summit Chiefs’...

B.C. can choose to avoid massive oil spill

Blog entry by Stephanie Goodwin | July 7, 2010 1 comment

First published in the Georgia Straight , July 5, 2010. Imagine kayaking through peanut butter. Except the peanut butter is toxic crude oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Paddling through the marshes of the...

BP Oil Spill: It’s the animals that worry me.

Blog entry by Stephanie Goodwin | July 5, 2010 2 comments

We have now been down here on the Gulf of Mexico for 5 days. It is hot and humid. Even though I knew full-well we were heading straight into hurricane Alex, I blithely expected clear skies and long sunny days. I am one member of...

Bearing witness to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Blog entry by Stephanie Goodwin | July 3, 2010

first published in Georgia Strait , June 30, 2010. I knew I was in the Louisiana bayou when the water hugged the road on both sides. Power lines rose out of this water, trucks were sunk, and fishing boats sat idle. I’m in Grand...

Why Enbridge is afraid of Ta'Kaiya Blaney

Blog entry by Stephanie Goodwin | March 24, 2011 7 comments

In my work for Greenpeace I meet special people pretty regularly.  And by special, I mean people who do the most unexpected things in the most wonderful ways.  Meet Ta’Kaiya.  She’s a ten-year old girl from North Vancouver who,...

Defend our Coast: October 22, 2012

Video | November 1, 2012 at 16:21

On October 22, 2012 thousands of Canadians gathered at the B.C. legislature in Victoria to defend the west coast from tar sands pipelines and tankers, and tell the B.C. and federal governments that our coast is not for sale. For more info...

What is the Nuclear Liability Act?

Video | February 19, 2013 at 13:12

Greenpeace is calling on the Stephen Harper government to stop protecting nuclear companies. Sign the petition here Greenpeace Nuclear Analyst Shawn-Patrick Stensil explains the Nuclear Liability Act, the special federal law that protects...

Month in Pictures - June 2011

Image gallery | July 1, 2011

2010 in Photos

Image gallery | December 23, 2010

Silent Evolution art installation in Cancun

Image gallery | December 6, 2010

Month in Pictures - September 2010

Image gallery | October 1, 2010

Proposed map of marine reserves.

Image | October 17, 2007 at 17:00

Proposed map of marine reserves.

Orca Trial

Image | November 3, 2008 at 11:09

Orca Trial

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