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Dr Paul Johnson Enlarge Image

Have scientist, will travel

Yes, it’s true, we do indeed have scientists. And some days, we even let them out of the lab.

Greenpeace activists strategically place rocks on the sea floor in order to stop destructive bottom trawling in Sweden Enlarge Image

Marine reserves - just a stone's throw away

This week we have created a granite shield against bottom trawling in a fragile and ecologically important marine area in Sweden. Our activists sailed into Swedish waters and have so far placed 140 granite rocks (each weighing between 0.5 and 3 tonnes) in the Lilla Middelgrund in the Kattegat. Our intention is to move to nearby Fladen and do the same thing there.

Juvenile bluefin tuna below the minimum landing size, landed by the unauthorised fishing vessel Yasar Reis II, being weighed on the quayside. Greenpeace demands the closure of the bluefin tuna fishery until its management is based on science, fishing capacity is decreased to sustainable levels and marine reserves are established to protect all the species’ breeding grounds. Enlarge Image

The suicidal tendencies of the Turkish tuna fishery

The Turkish government has set its own catch limit for the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna - in total disregard for internationally agreed quotas and scientific advice.

Greenpeace activists blockade Bombay House, headquarters of the TATA Group, demanding Mr. Ratan Tata halt construction on TATA’s Dhamra port in Orissa, which threatens the olive ridley sea turtles, an endangered species. Enlarge Image

Don't let TATA terminate the turtles

TATA corporation of India is in the global spotlight as they launch the Nano, the world's cheapest car. But the spotlight ought to be on a costly little secret: TATA's giant port at Dhamra, which threatens the nesting grounds of an endangered turtle species.

Greenpeace activists prevented four pirate fishing trawlers from leaving Rostock harbour with chains and oil drums. One vessel was chained to the harbour wall and hung with a banner reading 'Stop pirate fishing'. A fifth trawler left Rostock last night - all five are on the EU blacklist for having been engaged in illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing - also know as pirate fishing - in the Atlantic. All have recently changed names and flags and were trying to leave port to plunder the high seas again. Enlarge Image

EXPOSED! Pirates bankrolled by Spanish government

We've just presented evidence to the Fisheries Committee of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) that the Spanish company Vidal Armadores S. A., despite being involved in pirate fishing, received over 3.5 million Euros in Spanish government subsidies. On top of that, the company is still getting help from the Spanish government in securing contracts and licences to fish in other countries.

Greenpeace Japan Exective Director Jun Hoshikawa (3rd/R), Greenpeace Japan Fundraising Director Takumi Kobayashi (2nd/L), Greenpeace Japan Project Coordinator Malcolm Wren (2nd/R) are joined by Ohma fishing cooperative head Hirofumi Hamabata (L) and local farmer Shigenobu Araki in a celebratory ribbon cutting ceremony kicking off the opening of Greenpeace Japan's Aomori Communication Centre in Aomori, northern Japan. Enlarge Image

Taking the whaling debate to the Japanese people

We have officially opened a new Communications Centre in the northern fishing district of Aomori. As we mark 20 years of non-violent environmental campaigning in Japan this year, we're bringing our message of healthy oceans, whale protection, and sustainable fisheries direct to the people of this port city, along with information about our campaigns to prevent dangerous climate change and stop genetically modified food.

Sperm whale, (Physeter macrocephalus), Azores Islands (N. Atlantic). Enlarge Image

Ocean monuments? Thank you, George Bush

Thanks to President George Bush three national monuments in the Pacific will be created to protect the largest amount of ocean in the world to date. This is a truly rare opportunity for us to applaud the Bush administration!

Greenpeace opens a Climate Rescue Station on the edge of an open coal mine in Poland. Coal the single greatest threat facing our climate. Poland uses coal to produce 93% of its electricity. The Station has been set up in the run up to crucial UN climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland this December. Despite hosting the talks, Poland is attempting to obstruct the negotiations and to undermine the EU’s efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Enlarge Image

2008: The year in review

Here's a look at all the efforts for a green and peaceful future that our supporters made possible in 2008.

For many pacific island countries, no tuna means no future. Enlarge Image

Glimmer of hope for Pacific tuna

The final outcome of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission is too weak to stop overfishing of Pacific bigeye and yellowfin tuna. Pacific islanders are still at great risk from the collapse of this fishery. But the decision to close two of the high seas pockets, between Pacific Island countries, to purse seine fishing from 2010 has left them with a shred of hope.

Greenpeace and KFEM activists display a banner in Busan, Korea, the venue of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission meeting this week. Greenpeace and KFEM support the proposal by Pacific Island countries for closure of the high seas areas to fishing, and a reduction of the tuna catch in the region. Enlarge Image

Sending out an SOS for Pacific tuna

Our activists together with Korean environmental group KFEM created a huge human "SOS Tuna" banner on the shores of a beach in Busan, Korea, as a key regional meeting in Korea began this week. This extremely critical meeting will decide the fate of valuable tuna stocks in the Pacific, which are now seriously threatened due to overfishing.

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