A Lyttelton vista (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov Following ongoing negotiations with the Lyttelton port authorities, there has been a small but significant improvement in plans for our public open days. The key change is that there is...

Enjoying a school visit to the Warrior (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov A busy day on the good ship RW yesterday. First a visit by the children of Nova Montessori school – about 30 of them filled the bridge deck with chat and little hands...

Waveney Warth (left) who has pledged to not create any household waste for a year, with Campbell Live reporter Natasha Utting, at Green Drinks on the Rainbow Warrior (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov It's a tough life working on a Greenpeace...

Alex, Deckhand (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov Alex is a deckhand onboard. He's British. Very British. In fact he sounds suspiciously like one of the Famous Five. Alex likes classical music, the colour scarlet and welcoming people on board...

Photo competition winning Piwauwau by Suzi Phillips (Some rights reserved) The 'Climate and I' photo competition drew some great entries -- and we have a winner - or in fact - two. The winning photographer is Suzi Phillips from...

People aboard the Rainbow Warrior in Lytellton (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov Despite tight security at Port Lyttelton the open days here have been excellent. We've had about 1000 people through the ship. Everyone has been extremely...

I spotted an interesting ' the way we were ' piece of historical trivia in the paper here in Lyttelton this morning. In 1982 the Lyttelton Borough Council was second only to Christchurch in what would be a series of NZ towns, cities...

The Galley on the Rainbow Warrior I arrived in Lyttelton two days ago and it's taken me that long to get a berth on board. There's been a gaggle of volunteers here, helping with open days and generally getting a bit of ship time, but...

The Hellenic Sea coal ship At 1600 hours today we cast off our mooring lines and sailed the Rainbow Warrior across Lyttelton harbour into a position alongside the Hellenic Sea. With anchors at our stern and bow we will set ourselves...

Activists on the side of the Hellenic Sea (C) GREENPEACE Three activists from the Rainbow Warrior have made it across to the Hellenic Sea in a fast inflatable and have climbed on to the side of the ship. They are on the port side...

Greenpeace climbers unfurl a Target Climate Change banner while hanging from the hull of Solid Energy’s coal ship, the Hellenic Sea. Lyttelton, New Zealand, 2008. Greenpeace / Dimitri Sharomov Activists on the side of the...

Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior blocks the State Owned Enterprise Solid Energy’s coal ship the Hellenic Sea from leaving the Port of Lyttelton. (C) Greenpeace / Dimitri Sharomov As the dust settles after yesterday's action it's...

A Dunedin welcome (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov So much can happen in a week! It’s about that long since I wrote my last blog. In the meantime, you’ll have noticed the privilege was passed on to our web editor Nick, who joined the ship...

This video gives some background to the Greenpeace climate change campaign in New Zealand and some footage from the Rainbow Warrior's blockade of the Hellenic Sea coal shipment in Lyttelton on the 25th March. And...

Jo McVeagh being interviewed for the wireless (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov Today was pretty much taken up with media. More FM Dunedin came on board the ship at 7:30am, just as the sun was rising over the city, and proceeded to broadcast...

Enjoying the open days (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov Dunedin has been a treat. From the shags hanging about on the main deck, to the record number of people who attended the open days, to the ever-changing weather, it's been a full on and...

Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior blocks the State Owned Enterprise Solid Energy’s coal ship the Hellenic Sea from leaving the Port of Lyttelton. (C) Greenpeace / Dimitri Sharomov Our action in Lyttelton was intended to highlight...

Safety drills on the Rainbow Warrior (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov Greenpeace is a stickler for safety. As you might have read in deckhand Alex’s profile , despite working on commercial vessels for several years, he struck a fire drill...

Damian from More FM cleans the toilets aboard the Rainbow Warrior (C) GREENPEACE / SHAROMOV Damien from the More FM breakfast show has joined us on the Rainbow Warrior for the transit between Dunedin and Wellington. Here's what he has...

Update: The debate can be viewed here . In Wellington today (2 April 2008) at 7:00 PM, chaired by Sean Plunket from Radio New Zealand's Morning Report and hosted by Greenpeace, NZ politicians are to debate which party’s climate...

The debate on board the Rainbow Warrior (C) GREENPEACE / SHAROMOV The Rainbow Warrior arrived in Wellington yesterday, and to back up our survey of political parties , we cut straight to the chase with an on board political debate...

Renowned Political cartoonist Malcolm Evans puts paintbrush to billboard over climate change issue at Queens wharf,Wellington where Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior is docked. (C) GREENPEACE / SHAROMOV Today. Wellington.

The International Rising Tide network and its allies called for a day of action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st 2008 - FOSSIL FOOLS DAY! We've heard about lots of great actions so we thought we'd post a bit of a summary..

Anne Manchester (right), niece of late, renowned New Zealand sculptor Colin Webster-Watson, presenting a $20,000 cheque from Colin’s estate to Greenpeace NZ Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid, infront of his sculpture Tail of the Whale...

Robert the volunteer (C) GREENPEACE / SHAROMOV - A volunteer's perspective Today I lost my environmental activist cherry. Although I've been a Greenpeace supporter for a couple of years, this was the first time I've put my face...

All is very quiet on the good ship this morning. Half the troops have abandoned their posts! Usually at this hour the mess is filled with blurry-eyed Greenpeacers, but today it is just Tapio, mad Finnish engineer, talking about the...

Dairy conversion near Taupo (C) GREENPEACE While our teams in Taupo did some extreme gardening , I went to the Landcorp headquarters in Wellington to deliver a letter outlining Landcorp's contribution to climate change and demanding...

Undoing dairy (C) GREENPEACE / SHAROMOV It was a nippy morning and, coming from Auckland I could feel the difference moving down the island, but the physical labour returning over 1000 beautiful native trees to Papatuanuku warmed our...