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Feb 04

Greenpeace activists circle the Vietnamese vessel. Enlarge image

Rainbow Warrior success in Indonesia

The Ha Tinh 06, owned by the Vietnamese government and registered in Haiphong, had been waiting to load in the Kumai Bay area for 10 days, but has been prevented from loading thanks to our sustained presence in the area.

Tasmanian forest activists send a message to the CBD. Enlarge image

Australia wins planet assassin award

Greenpeace has awarded Australia and Malaysia with the 2004 Champion Assassin of Life on Earth award due to both countries’ efforts in bringing an end to the planet’s biodiversity.

Retreat of the foot of the HPS31 glacier. Patagonia, 1954-2004. Enlarge image

Climate change melts ice

Jorge crossed the Patagonian icefields during the summer of 1955 as part an expedition sponsored by the London Royal Society.

About 80 per cent of Indonesia's timber exports are illegal. Enlarge image

Potential illegal timber uncovered in Indonesia

Greenpeace has discovered several barges of logs that could have been illegally extracted from areas in Indonesia such as the Tanjung Putting national park in Kalimantan. The logs are soon to be exported from Indonesia.

Tasmania exports more woodchips from native forests than all other Australian states combined. Enlarge image

Greenpeace halts woodchip export

Greenpeace today stopped the export of woodchips from Tasmania’s ancient forests to Japanese companies Oji Paper, Nippon Paper and Mitsubishi Paper Mills with an action at Tasmania’s Triabunna port.

"The local communities don't benefit from the logging activities. The foreign investors didn't provide any schools or health services like they promised" Enlarge image

Youth speak at CBD: ‘The forest is my life’

Addressing the UN meeting on the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) in Kuala Lumpur, Omani Sakespeso, 18 years old, from Werio, Papua New Guinea urged delegates to protect his forest home.

Meacher says GM crops are "neither safe, nor necessary, nor desirable". Enlarge image

Public demands more say in GE crops

“When do we get a choice about whether we want to eat genetically modified oils? When do I get a choice about what I’m feeding my children?” asked one member of the audience at a packed public meeting on Growing Genetically Engineered Food in Australia.

A Greenpeace campaigner watches as plywood is loaded on to a Maltese bulk carrier, The Greveno. Enlarge image

Further illegal forest destruction exposed

Greenpeace Australia Pacific's Stephen Campbell is part of a team that today risked the wrath of Indonesian timber barons to expose illegal logging in the National Park, famous as one of one of the last homes of the endangered Orang-utan.

Click picture for chart of tuna catches. Enlarge image

Over-fishing fears for Pacific

Greenpeace today reinforced warnings that bigeye and yellowfin tuna populations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) are likely to begin crashing within five years if industrial fishing fleets are not stopped from migrating to the Pacific.

"By looking at that place I feel very sad and upset and frustrated about my land being destroyed” - Sakas Aonomo (above) from Bula Creek, Western Province, PNG Enlarge image

Greenpeace report exposes global forest criminal

The global trade in illegal and destructively logged timber is now out of control. Unlawful access to forest resources, environmental damage and forest destruction, human rights abuses and social dislocation of forest-dwelling peoples in some of the poorest areas of the world, are being fuelled by those who buy timber and timber products from illegal sources.

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