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Southeast Asian ships caught illegally transferring fish in the Pacific Ocean

Press release | November 15, 2012 at 11:00

Pacific Ocean, 15 November 2012 – Greenpeace International has uncovered a large-scale illegal transfer of fish at sea between one ship from Cambodia, one from the Philippines and two from Indonesia in the Pacific Commons.

Strengthen fisheries enforcement to stop pirate fishing, end overfishing crisis -...

Press release | November 12, 2012 at 13:50

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 
November 12, 2012 – The monitoring of tuna fisheries must be strengthened and transfers of fish at sea banned to end the overfishing crisis in the Indian Ocean, Greenpeace International said on Monday after it again found...

Greenpeace finds illegal fishing vessels, urges UK to enforce Chagos marine reserve

Press release | October 24, 2012 at 16:56

Indian Ocean, October 24, 2012 – Greenpeace found two illegal Sri Lankan fishing boats inside the Chagos marine reserve on Wednesday and has called on the UK government to enforce protection of this Indian Ocean reserve from pirate fishing.

Marks & Spencer to eliminate hazardous chemicals from clothing

Press release | October 24, 2012 at 11:50

Amsterdam, 23 October 2012 - Fashion retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) has today made a breakthrough commitment (1) to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout their entire supply chain and products by 2020, in response to the...

Official radiation monitoring stations in Fukushima unreliable: Greenpeace

Press release | October 23, 2012 at 4:00

Tokyo, Japan, October 23, 2012 – Following new radioactive contamination checks in Fukushima City and the heavily contaminated Iitate(1) last week, Greenpeace has found that official monitoring stations systematically underestimate the radiation...

US farmers warn EU: do not follow GE path to agricultural Armageddon

Press release | October 22, 2012 at 10:55

Warsaw, 22 October 2012 – European agriculture will be irreparably damaged if the European Commission were to follow the US and authorise the cultivation of herbicide-tolerant genetically engineered (HTGE) crops, Greenpeace warned today. The...

Financial risks for investors in the ZE PAK SA IPO

Press release | October 19, 2012 at 13:42

Warsaw, 19 October 2012 — Greenpeace and CEE Bankwatch are contacting analysts and investors to warn them that participating in the ZE PAK SA initial public offering in Poland could leave buyers exposed to significant financial risk.

Greenpeace activists occupy Taiwan shipbuilding yard to protest overfishing

Press release | October 12, 2012 at 9:00

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 12, 2012 – Ten Greenpeace activists occupied the largest shipbuilding yard in Taiwan on Friday, accusing the Taiwanese government of undermining international fishing agreements set up to combat the global overfishing...

Greenpeace activists evade security at Swedish nuclear power plants

Press release | October 10, 2012 at 13:04

Stockholm, October 10, 2012 – Exposing the vulnerability of Swedish nuclear power plants, at least seven Greenpeace activists stayed more than 24 hours undetected at two sites following a test of their security procedures.

South Korea again bars Greenpeace staff from country to silence nuclear critics

Press release | October 8, 2012 at 8:30

Seoul, South Korea, 8 October 2012 - Greenpeace International nuclear campaigners have again been denied entry to South Korea, making it crystal clear the government in Seoul is trying to silence nuclear critics.

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