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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
