The end of May saw a plenty of action as our Pacific overfishing tour 'netted' the world's largest tuna destroyer, Australia's top chefs signed a GM-free charter and we called for an investigation into a whale meat scandal.
During April, we took action in the air and on the sea, launching a spectacular climate change message for Kevin Rudd and campaigning for marine reserves in the overfished Pacific Ocean.
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.
This month, we found food products contaminated with experimental GE rice in Europe, highlighted overfishing in the Pacific, delayed a shipment of dirty coal in Thailand and used balloons to show just how much greenhouse gas pollution Victoria's corporate polluters are creating.
In June 2006, Fiji hosted the World Music Festival in Suva. The festival aims to develop environmental programs through music. Artists from around the world joined regional talent for the popular event. For some of the 15,000-strong audience, it was a chance to speak out about overfishing in the Pacific. Many signed a Greenpeace petition to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, calling for a reduction of fishing to help tuna stocks recover.
