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Undercover investigation exposes Asia Pulp & Paper's illegal rainforest scandal

Press release | February 29, 2012 at 16:39

Jakarta, March 1, 2012 -- A year long Greenpeace investigation into the world's third largest pulp and paper producer, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), has found that the company is systematically violating Indonesia's laws protecting ramin, an...

Governments fail to protect bluefin tuna at CITES

Press release | March 18, 2010 at 0:00

Greenpeace condemns the failure of governments meeting for at the CITES (Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species), to agree any measures to protect endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna.

Something Fishy About Norwegian Whale Export

Press release | July 16, 2002 at 0:00

The export from Norway to Iceland of 8 tonnes of whale meat is a cynical but clumsy attempt to force the rest of the world to restart the international trade in whale products.

Governments fail to protect endangered species at CITES - Greenpeace

Press release | March 25, 2010 at 0:00

As the 15th meeting of the conference of parties to the Convention in Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) closes today, Greenpeace condemned governments for putting short-term economic interests ahead of the long-term survival of endangered species.

Iceland to export fin whales

Feature story | November 10, 2006 at 0:00

An Icelandic whaling company has said it will ignore an international ban on the trade of endangered species, and export its catch to Japan. But it remains unclear if in Japan the demand even exists. The meat will first need to be tested for...

CITES Factsheet: African Elephant

Publication | October 1, 2004 at 0:00

In the past the demand for ivory has led to wide-scale poaching and the decimation of elephant populations.

Disaster for bluefin tuna at CITES meeting

Feature story | March 19, 2010 at 14:51

Governments have completely failed to pull bluefin tuna backfrom the brink of 'commercial extinction': it would have been so easy, listen to the scientists, witness the failure of the exiting management group, and agree to protection under CITES...

Last chance for bluefin tuna, too late for real conservation

Feature story | March 5, 2010 at 0:00

2010 is supposed to be the UN Year of Biodiversity, a serious attempt to highlight and reverse the global trend of huge biodiversity loss which scientists agree is underway. The results of this CITES meeting, particularly for marine life, make a...

European Union sinks tuna agreement

Feature story | November 25, 2008 at 15:00

Shameless. Disastrous. The international body responsible for "managing" what's left of the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna stock has ignored scientific advice, the demands of Greenpeace supporters around the world, and the pleas...

Now sharks fail to gain protection at CITES

Press release | March 24, 2010 at 11:05

Responding to the failure of governments at CITES to list several species of sharks on Appendix II of CITES, Greenpeace International Oceans Campaigner Oliver Knowles said: “Yet again governments have failed to protect species that are massively...

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