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Jan 06


These Solomon Island protesters want protection for their forest resources. Enlarge image

Forest march to stop the loggers

It was the biggest protest ever held in Solomon Islands over illegal logging. Under a heavy downpour, 500 women, men and children came from the threatened forest wards of East and Central Bauro region. Gripping anti-logging banners, they marched to the town of Kirakira to present their petition demanding a halt to logging in two disputed land areas.

Greenpeace ship crews use their bodies to form the words "Help End Whaling!". Click picture for larger image. Enlarge image

Save whales in your supermarket

After a month of hampering the whale hunt, Greenpeace is leaving the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to take the battle from the high seas to supermarket shelves.

You don't have to be out in an inflatable to help defend whales. Enlarge image

How you can help whales today

Today is a global day of action against whaling. We can't all confront the whalers in the Southern Ocean but there are plenty of other ways you can become an ocean defender today.

Giant whale and Greenpeace activists march through Sydney to help stop whaling. Click picture for larger image. Enlarge image

Protesters ask Japanese ministers to act on whaling

Greenpeace protesters attempted to deliver a letter to two visiting Japanese delegates attending the Coal Pact meeting in Sydney, calling on them to ask their government to end whaling.

Activists bury John Howard's head in coal to demonstrate his government's inaction on climate change. Enlarge image

Howard up to his eyeballs in coal

Hundreds of concerned citizens protested in Sydney outside the Asia-Pacific Climate Partnership meeting, where business and government leaders are gathering to discuss how to keep burning coal instead of tackling climate change.

Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise shows the dent from a collision caused by the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship, Nisshin Maru, when it cut across the bow of the Arctic Sunrise. Enlarge image

Whalers ram Greenpeace ship

Early on 8 January, Greenpeace ship, MV Arctic Sunrise, was deliberately rammed and damaged by the Nisshin Maru, the factory ship of the Japanese whaling fleet.

A whale thrashes in the water after it is hit by an explosive harpoon. Enlarge image

Whaling and protest resumes

The Greenpeace crews of the Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise ships are again defending whales in the Southern Ocean after 10 days of no whales being killed.

Despite record-breaking heat, Australia’s Federal Government is still a renegade when it comes to climate change. Enlarge image

Record heat followed by hot air

As Australia sweltered under one of its hottest ever New Year’s days (following the hottest year on record), the fingerprint of climate change on our weather is clearer than ever.

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