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Pirates of the Pacific

Blog entry by JulietteH | 25 November, 2011 6 comments

Yesterday we found evidence of high seas pirates illegally fishing tuna in the Pacific. The high seas pockets have long been a playground for pirate fishermen making it difficult for surrounding Pacific Island countries to...

Add your voice to the call for a genuinely historic sanctuary

Blog entry by Nathaniel Pelle | 6 December, 2011 6 comments

Right now the Australian government is deciding the fate of Australia's Coral Sea. The countdown is on to protect nearly one million square kilometres of unique coral reefs, atolls and underwater canyons flanking the world-heritage...

Ending pirate fishing for the future of the Pacific

Blog entry by Lagi Toribau, Greenpeace Australia Pacific | 4 October, 2011 2 comments

Pohnpei is a beautiful tropical island in the middle of the Central Pacific, the largest and most populated island of the Federated States of Micronesia. Much to its green lush beauty is down to the rain that falls every day and the...

Nauru Comes Through

Blog entry by Steve Connolly, on board the Esperanza | 14 October, 2011 1 comment

Recently the Esperanza and crew had a short stop in Nauru, a small Pacific island country between Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. Our stop here happened to come just days after Nauru called for the closure to longline fishing in...

Hope for Pacific oceans, Pacific people, Pacific lives

Blog entry by Duncan Williams, Greenpeace Australia Pacific | 18 October, 2011 8 comments

© Paul Hilton/Greenpeace As a Pacific Islander onboard the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza (Spanish for Hope), I cannot help but feel that there is hope despite the plight facing our magnificent Pacific Ocean. This vast oceanscape...

The evacuation of Rongelap

Background | 12 March, 2010 at 0:30

In 1985 the residents of Rongelap in the Marshall Islands asked Greenpeace to help them relocate to a new home. Their island had been contaminated by radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific.

Talking tuna

Blog entry by LisaV | 29 January, 2011 1 comment

Karli Thomas, oceans campaigner with Greenpeace since 2005, discusses the worldwide decline of tuna and other fish stocks on Radio New Zealand . Click below to listen.   Take Action: Write to Princes ,...

Meet the Second Mate of the Rainbow Warrior

Blog entry by LisaV | 10 January, 2011 4 comments

An interview with Robert Horak, Second Mate from the Czech Republic on board the Rainbow Warrior Robert has been entertaining several hundreds of people who have come to visit the Rainbow Warrior in Keelung City, northeast Taiwan.

Standing up - in court - for the oceans

Blog entry by YuFen Kao, Greenpeace East Asia | 8 November, 2011 3 comments

My name is YuFen Kao, and I believe that here in Taiwan, the future of our oceans deserves a public debate. As an oceans campaigner here, I am currently involved in a court case stemming from a peaceful protest conducted when the...

Goodbye to Taiwan: The Rainbow moves on...

Blog entry by Ronetava Ronaivakulu | 31 January, 2011 3 comments

Bula again everyone. This is my last blog from the Rainbow Warrior. I just want to reminisce about what has transpired during this first part of the East Asia Ocean Defenders Tour in Taiwan. First of all I just want to state what a...

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