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Belarus: Chernobyl certificate 000358. Anna Pesenko, known as Annya by her friends and family, is back home. Last month, Annya was rushed into hospital and kept on artificial breathing at the intensive care unit for 17 days. This has become almost a routine since a brain tumour reappeared in 2000. In 1994, she was first diagnosed with cancer. At night, parents Valentina and Vachlav Pesenko sleep on the floor next to their daughter’s bed, for Annya has to be turned every 15 minutes to prevent bedsores. The girl needs help with everything. Chernobyl in the Ukraine became the site of the most infamous nuclear disaster accident of all. In 1986 the explosion of the nuclear reactor affected the lives of millions in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Both countries have plans to build new reactors to export energy to Europe. Enlarge image

Month in pictures: March 2008

We have two powerful photographic exhibitions in Sydney and Brisbane this month. Greenpeace activists are also busy highlighting the imbalance of energy subsidies and that genetically engineered canola knows no borders.

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28 November 2007: Greenpeace activists create an exclusion zone outside the NSW Parliament building to highlight the hazards of lifting the state bans on genetically engineered (GE) food crops. Enlarge image

GE contamination set to spread as state bans lifted

Greenpeace activists create an exclusion zone outside the NSW Parliament building to highlight the hazards of lifting the state bans on genetically engineered (GE) food crops.

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9 October 2007: Locals and Greenpeace activists ask that their forests and climate be saved during the opening ceremony of our Forest Defender Camp at Kuala Cenaku, Riau province in Sumatra. Deforestation has already taken over 60 % of forests in the province. © Greenpeace Enlarge image

Month in pictures: October 2007

Locals ask for their forests back in Sumatra, Greenpeace and scientists begin tracking whales, our team in Tonga highlights the dire impacts of collapsed tuna fisheries and drowning Pacific nations, we reveal that Apple's iPhone contains hazardous chemicals, activists hand out Anvil Hill-branded hot potatoes, and 'comoonicators' act against Devondale dairy products, which may be contaminated with genetically engineered ingredients.

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1 May 1985: Rainbow Warrior crew help a woman on board during the Rongelap Island evacuation. Rongelap was contaminated with radioactive fallout from an American nuclear test in the Pacific. Enlarge image

30th Anniversary images

Greenpeace Australia Pacific is 30 years old! Our first protest under the Greenpeace banner was anti-whaling and took place in Australia on 28 August 1977. Since then we have worked on many environmental campaigns throughout the Pacific region such as peace, preventing climate change, stopping deforestation, reducing overfishing, keeping genetically engineered food out of Australia and a toxic free world. Check out some of the images from our campaigning history.

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3 June 2007: Around 400 people from all over New South Wales gathered at Anvil Hill in the NSW Hunter Valley to form a huge human sign reading "Save Anvil Hill". Anvil Hill, site of a proposed coal mine, will produce an extra 27 million tonnes of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide each year - equal to four million more cars on New South Wales roads. Enlarge image

Month in pictures: June 2007

Despite community opposition NSW Premier Iemma approves the Anvil Hill coalmine in the Hunter Valley, Himalayas water supply decreases due to climate change, dairy industry supports lifting the ban on genetically engineered canola in Victoria.

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outfit - The unloading of the first ever shipment of genetically engineered canola to land in Australia was blockaded today at Kooragang Island by Greenpeace activists who declared the site a biohazard. Greenpeace wants to prevent GE contanimated canola from sneaking unwanted and unlabelled into the foodchain. Enlarge image

Canola action

Greenpeace activists block a shipment of genetically engineered (GE) canola seeds. Our action prevented the seeds from being crushed and contaminating the food chain. It’s the first ever GE canola to enter Australia.

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16 April 2004: The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow warrior, arrives in Sydney to promote a future free from genetically engineered (GE) food. Up to 300,000 tonnes of GE soy is imported into Australia each year, contaminating our food by stealth - mostly through poultry feed. Enlarge image

Rainbow Warrior keep Australia GE-free tour

16 April 2004: The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow warrior, arrives in Sydney to promote a future free from genetically engineered (GE) food.

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1 October: Greenpeace gear is back. Our popular merchandise makes a comeback with the launch of the Greenpeace online shop. Goodies include organic cotton T-shirts, accessories and a Greenpeace CD featuring great Aussie talent. Enlarge image

Month in pictures: October 2005

We launch our online merchandise store, support farmers against genetically engineered (GE) crops, push renewable energy, monitor supermarkets for GE food, help American teacher and peace activist Scott Parkin, push for an end to deep sea destruction and inform the public about the ANZ Bank fuelling climate change by funding an unwanted coal-fired power station in Thailand.

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Rice fields at sunset in the Yunnan Province Enlarge image

Rice is Life tour 2004

Rice has been grown around the world for over 10,000 years, it is cultivated in 113 countries and 3000 million people rely on it as a staple food. All of this is in danger as the spectre of genetic engineering creeps up on the planet's most important food crop. The Rice is Life tour examines the traditional crop practices in the Yunnan Province, China.

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