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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
